Yesterday/Today Datestamp Hack

YESTERDAY/TODAY DATESTAMP HACK - Updated 5/25/02
Tested and working on vB 2.2.1 -> 2.2.6

Description: This hack replaces the standard "05-25-02, 02:45 PM" date with "Today" or "Yesterday" anywhere you have a date posted, if the date matches today's or yesterday's date.

Demo: Installed on vBulletin.org.

The following are add-ons that may be helpful depending on your specific needs.

Extra features:

• Template-based version : Allows you to specify different values for "Today" and "Yesterday" -- useful if you have multiple language style sets on your board. (i.e., you can set the value for today to "Today" in your English style set, and "Aujourd'hui" for your Francais style set.)
  
• Change "You last visited:" to the "Today 08:33PM" format : Due to the way vB was coded, this does not happen by default. Follow the instructions in this link to make this change.
  
• Change the date style to "Today, at 08:33 PM"

Helpful template hacks: Due to the way the standard vB template set handles date columns in forumhome.php and forumdisplay.php, some template changes may be of use:

• To modify forumhome.php: Follow the instructions here
• To modify forumdisplay.php: Follow the instructions here

Comments and criticism are always welcome.
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[Illuvatar]

Hey bigmattyh!!!

[high]* Illuvatar moves site to new server, installs 2.2.7, and reapplys this most excellent hack with NO PROBLEMS!!
[/high]

lol

And get this...

I even modified the code a little cause I liked the "Today, at" in the last visited piece, and I wanted it on my individual forum display as well!

All I did was this:

PHP Code:

    if ($date==$todaydate) {
      $date="Today, at";
    }
    if ($date==$yestdate) {
      $date="Yesterday, at"; 


and worked like a champ!

Many thanks again!

Illu

[Baptizer]

Wonder why he didnt add the ", at" that way in the first place...seems easier. I dont know much about code, but is there a reason why he chose to add it the other way? loads faster? god i stupid!

[Greystang302]

Hi, I am running vB 2.2.7 and I just installed this hack tonight. Everything seems to be working as advertised except for the display in Trilobyte's Welcome Panel hack. I have attached an image to show what the problem looks like.

I followed your instructions in this post and it made no difference irregardless of which line I posted it above ($getnewthread or $getnewpost). Any ideas about what could have gone wrong? I followed the instructions to the letter...

[bigmattyh]

Originally posted by KarateKid
I get many errors...

Open up your functions.php file and post the offending section of it here -- from about line 2292 to 2296. That way I can see what's up.

Wonder why he didnt add the ", at" that way in the first place

I seem to remember that there are some problems with doing it this way. Like on your memberlist page, you might get "Today, at" ... and no time. It's been a while, so I could be wrong.

Greystang302:
I don't have the welcome panel installed on my forums, so I can't troubleshoot this one. It looks like the value for $bbuserinfo[lastvisit] is being replaced elsewhere in the welcome panel code... Can you find a line in that hack that assigns a value to $bbuserinfo[lastvisit]? If so, comment it out (by typing // before any text on that line.

[Greystang302]

I will check on that after work tonight Matty, I was also looking at the code while eating breakfast this morning and it looks like for some reason some of the edits that I made to the file didn't get uploaded? Not sure what could have happened though...

I will verify this tonight and post the findings. Thanks for the help!

[Greystang302]

Well, I got the hack working again except for the Welcome Panel. I got home from work late so I didn't have time to do anything else otherwise. There is a code difference in the 2.2.7 release, but it's not major. I will post all of this tomorrow, I am beat! Gotta get to sleep for now...

[ExAvIoUr]

Very nice hack indeed ... simple and works.

Wanted to do as many others mentioned and have it display up top also like You last visited: 09-11-2002 01:58 AM

... but I don't have any code matching what you specified in an earlier post in my index.php:

if (isset($bbforumview[$forum['forumid']]) and $bbforumview[$forum['forumid']]>$bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
    $userlastvisit=$bbforumview[$forum['forumid']];
} else {
    $userlastvisit=$bbuserinfo['lastvisit'];
}

or anything close to it .... I have instead:

if (($fview = get_bbarraycookie('forumview', $forum['forumid'])) > $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
						$userlastvisit=$fview;
					} else {
						$userlastvisit=$bbuserinfo['lastvisit'];

thanx for any assistance anyone can offer.

[Greystang302]

That code was one of the differences with 2.2.7 that I mentioned before... it was part of a change to the original code to fix an AOL cookie-dumping problem. I just haven't had a chance to post about it yet.

[bigmattyh]

Okay... I haven't upgraded to 2.2.7 (and I'm not planning to yet!), so I can't say for sure if this will work, but give it a try:

Replace this:

if (($fview = get_bbarraycookie('forumview', $forum['forumid'])) > $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
						$userlastvisit=$fview;
					} else {
						$userlastvisit=$bbuserinfo['lastvisit'];

With this:

if (($fview = get_bbarraycookie('forumview', $forum['forumid'])) > $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
						$userlastvisit=$fview;
					} else {
						$userlastvisit=vbdate($bbuserinfo['lastvisit']);

And then insert $userlastvisit into your template where you want the date to appear.

[ExAvIoUr]

you ^#^&@^&! you fecked my board!

hehe just kidding m8, thanx for the suggestion. tried it out and got:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for vbdate() in /home/choicein/public_html/forums/admin/functions.php3 on line 1609

sounds simple enugh to do, but beyond me at this point. hehe