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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[bigmattyh]

Originally posted by Lucky
Any chance of getting this hack to work for all instances, such as You last visited: 02-26-2002 12:43 AM.

Lucky:

This instance requires on additional hack. Here it is:

In index.php, around line 250, find this block of code:

PHP Code:

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


After this block, just insert the following line:

PHP Code:

$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] = vbdate($dateformat, $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']); 


This should fix this particular instance. Thanks for the tip!

Slowly but surely, the exceptions to this hack are finding there way out of the woodwork. There shouldn't be more than one or two more after this one -- if any.

[r.cakir]

Hello bigmattyh
Maybe you can help me with this odd problem: I can't use the attached zip-file in your first post. After it's downloaded, decompressed and opened in a Editor (BBEdit) I see only unusable code. I use Mac OS X 10.1.3 and I don't have problems with all other downloads on this Board, except for this one.

It's possible for you to send me the file with Email ?

Thanks!

[Kohhal]

Originally posted by Lucky
Any chance of getting this hack to work for all instances, such as You last visited: 02-26-2002 12:43 AM.

I want to get this working too but instead of it showing "You last visited: Today."(which the additional hack you supplied does) I want it to show the time too ie. "You last visited Today 12:43 AM."
Is this possible? How do I do it?

Cheers,

G

Ps. Great hack :up:

[bigmattyh]

Thanks for the thumbs up!

Here's how you do what you're looking to do. By the way, this isn't directly related to my hack, but it does get the job done.

In index.php, around line 260, you'll see this line:

PHP Code:

$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] = vbdate($dateformat, $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']); 


Immediately after it, insert this line:

PHP Code:

$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] .= " at " . vbdate($timeformat, $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']); 


And you're set. I think you can probably figure out how to customize this. For example, if you want it to say, "You last visited Today, at 8:33 PM", you'd just insert a comma before the " at " in the above line.

That's it.

[Okiewan]

Very nice.. thank you!

[sTive]

Is there anybody who tried to use it under vb2.2.3b ?

[bigmattyh]

I haven't installed vB 2.2.3 -- mostly because I don't want to upgrade now and then have to upgrade again when vB 3 comes out (hopefully next month).

Are you having problems with the hack under 2.2.3? If so, I can try to look into it for you.

[FWC]

Originally posted by bigmattyh
Are you having problems with the hack under 2.2.3? If so, I can try to look into it for you.

I upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 this morning and this hack is working fine.

[Recon_Boy]

Originally posted by FWC
I upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 this morning and this hack is working fine.

Same here.

[Kohhal]

Originally posted by bigmattyh
...Here's how you do what you're looking to do...

Perfect, thanks a lot. Installed perfectly