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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[Gutspiller]

Bug found, When you edit a post it says

"Originally posted by Gutspiller on Today 03:03 PM"

That don't really make sense now do it. Anyway to fix that small thing so it sounds good when it shows today/yesterday or the numberic date?

[Dean C]

bigmattyh gave the fix - i believe it is functions.php

[Gutspiller]

Today at 03:21 PM Mist said this in Post #252
bigmattyh gave the fix - i believe it is functions.php

Don't find those lines in my function.php

[Boofo]

Yesterday at 08:50 AM Gutspiller said this in Post #250


What file is that in? I can't seem to find that code in my function.php

forum/index.php

[Gutspiller]

Today at 05:36 PM Boofo said this in Post #254



forum/index.php

That seems to only fix where it says

"You last visited: Today , at 12:48 PM"

There still needs to be a "at" in the last date post on forum index and forum display AND where I stated before, when you edit a post it displays

"Originally posted by Gutspiller on Today 05:55 PM"

Which isn't even proper engrish.

This is more like a beta hack if these small things can't be fix isn't it?

Thanks for the help so far, any more left in ya?

[Boofo]

editpost template

[Gutspiller]

Today at 07:41 PM Boofo said this in Post #256
editpost template

and how do I edit it so when it's "today" or "yesterday" it says one thing in the template, and when it's past today or yesterday it changes it?

Because "Today at 12:30 PM" sounds fine, but 3/22/03 at 12:30 PM sounds lame. maybe 12:30 on 3/22/03 could work. But how do I get it to say one thing if today/yesterday and the other if it's a actual date? :ermm:

[Boofo]

Install Logician's Dynamic templates hack and you can do what you want very easily inside the template itself. I just did it and it works fine.

[AlexanderT]

I noticed that the in forumhome, the "Today" entry in the "Last Post" column is not perfectly aligned (see attached image). Does anyone know the proper html code to fix that?

[Smoothie]

Today at 02:06 PM AlexanderT said this in Post #259
I noticed that the in forumhome, the "Today" entry in the "Last Post" column is not perfectly aligned (see attached image). Does anyone know the proper html code to fix that?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...532#post254532
same for forumhome