Miscellaneous Hacks - World Time Zones

World Time Zones
(By Boofo)
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Description
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This product will add a separate page with a listing of different world time zones.

Details
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1 Product XML
1 PHP file
3 Images


Installation
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1. Upload worldtimes.php to your forums directory
2. Upload the 3 image files to your images/misc directory
3. Go to your AdminCP
Scroll down to 'Plugin System'
Click 'Manage Products'
Click 'Add/Import Product'
Click the 'Browse' button, and locate the product-worldtimes.xml file on your computer.

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Done!
Enjoy!

[Boofo]

Is it working all right for you now, then?

[poolking]

/me installed

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Is it working all right for you now, then?

Certainly is :up:

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by poolking

[high]* poolking installed[/high]

I wondered when you were going to fiund this thread.

I'm about ready to release another one in a few mninutes I'm sure you will be interested in, sir.

@theArchitect - Great! Enjoy!

[jblackburn]

Sorry for the stupid question, but... is this supposed to add a menu item to the vb menu or does one just need to go in and create a link to it? What's the best method to do this? The only way I see this now is by going directly to the URL /worldtimes.php.

Thx in advance,
Jim

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by jblackburn

Sorry for the stupid question, but... is this supposed to add a menu item to the vb menu or does one just need to go in and create a link to it? What's the best method to do this? The only way I see this now is by going directly to the URL /worldtimes.php.

Thx in advance,
Jim

That's exactly what you need to do.

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by jblackburn

Sorry for the stupid question, but... is this supposed to add a menu item to the vb menu or does one just need to go in and create a link to it? What's the best method to do this? The only way I see this now is by going directly to the URL /worldtimes.php.

Thx in advance,
Jim

As Boofo said, you will need to add a link yourself.

If you are not sure how to do this you will need to edit your navbar template, which is done via your style manager.

I added my link to the Quick Links menu. If you want to do the same search for

<if condition="$show['wollink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[whos_online]</a></td></tr></if>

in the navbar template and then add after

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="worldtimes.php">World Times</a></td></tr>

You could also choose to make world time a phrase but that would add another stage to the process.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by theArchitect

As Boofo said, you will need to add a link yourself.

If you are not sure how to do this you will need to edit your navbar template, which is done via your style manager.

I added my link to the Quick Links menu. If you want to do the same search for

<if condition="$show['wollink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[whos_online]</a></td></tr></if>

in the navbar template and then add after

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="worldtimes.php">World Times</a></td></tr>

You could also choose to make world time a phrase but that would add another stage to the process.

I will link this in the first post when I get back.

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I will link this in the first post when I get back.

Thanks. Glad to be of service.

[jblackburn]

Thanks all for the menu tips.

As for time, so things don't make sense, allthough I've edited the worldtimes.php file to get it to work:

San Diego is currently at UTC/GMT -7 hours; I had to set the $servertime to timediff+9 to get it to display proper PDT. By the instructions, it would have seemed that you'd take the line +2, add your time zone offset (-7) and get the setting -5.

Several of the world city times were also off; I'm assuming this might be because of the UTC/GMT/daylight saving time differences? Here's what I came up with (I've removed some I didn't want). Notice how for PDT below it had to be set to -8 where above it had to be set to +9.

$timezones['-11'] = "[Hawaii] Honolulu, Chatham Island, Papeete, Tahiti, Cook Islands";
$timezones['-8'] = "[PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)] Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, San Fransisco";
$timezones['-7'] = "[MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)] Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City";
$timezones['-6'] = "[CDT (Central Daylight Time)] Des Moines, Chicago, St. Paul, New Orleans, Houston";
$timezones['-5'] = "[EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)] Detroit, New York, Miami, Boston, Atlanta";
$timezones['0'] = "[WET (Western Europe Time)] London, Lisbon, Dublin";
$timezones['1'] = "[CET (Central Europe Time)] Brussels, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Zürich, Madrid, Berlin, Stockholm";
$timezones['2'] = "[EET (Eastern Europe Time)] Athens, Johannesburg, Cape Town, South Africa, Cairo, Jerusalem";
$timezones['2'] = "Riyadh, Baghdad, Khartoum, Kuwait City";
$timezones['3'] = "Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Tbilisi, Muscat, Baku";
$timezones['4.5'] = "Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi";
$timezones['7'] = "Perth, Singapore, Beijing, Manila, Hong Kong, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur";
$timezones['9'] = "Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Saporro, Yakutsk";
$timezones['9'] = "[EAST (East Australian Standard)] Brisbane, Guam";
$timezones['9'] = "Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Magadan";
$timezones['11'] = "Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Kamchatka";

Jim