Has posted today conditional?

[Razasharp]

Is there a conditional I can use for the member profiles to check whether the user has posted today? I'd like to show a graphic if they have.

I noticed the welcome headers hack has this conditional:

<if condition="$headerstime - 1209600 > $bbuserinfo[lastpost]">

So perhaps I could use something like that? Maybe something like if Date.today == $bbuserinfo[lastpost].day

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[kh99]

If you mean "within the past 24 hours" then (assuming the $bbuserinfo[lastpost] is set) you can check it by subtracting $bbuserinfo[lastpost] from TIMENOW and comparing the result to 86400 (seconds in 24 hours).

If you mean "on today's date" then you'd need a plugin with more code to figure that out. Basically get the day-month-year for today and the post time, and see if they're the same, or maybe get the timestamp for midnight at the start of today and see if $bbuserinfo[lastpost] is greater (and you might have to deal with timezones depending on what you mean by "today").

[Razasharp]

Originally Posted by kh99

If you mean "within the past 24 hours" then (assuming the $bbuserinfo[lastpost] is set) you can check it by subtracting $bbuserinfo[lastpost] from TIMENOW and comparing the result to 86400 (seconds in 24 hours).

If you mean "on today's date" then you'd need a plugin with more code to figure that out. Basically get the day-month-year for today and the post time, and see if they're the same, or maybe get the timestamp for midnight at the start of today and see if $bbuserinfo[lastpost] is greater (and you might have to deal with timezones depending on what you mean by "today").

Hi Kevin - thanks for the reply. I'm trying this but it doesn't work :/

<if condition="$timenow = TIMENOW">
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[lastpost] > $timenow - 86400">
(Has posted within the last 24 hours)
</if>
</if>

If the lastpost time is greater than now-minus-24hours - it should return true?

I am half asleep though so probably doing something wrong

[kh99]

I think you'd want something like this:

<if condition="TIMENOW - $bbuserinfo[lastpost] < 86400">
// posted in last 24 hours
</if>

[Razasharp]

Hi Kevin

That doesn't work either :/

(It returns true for everyone)

[kh99]

Oh - you probably want to use $userinfo, because $bbuserinfo will always be you, no matter whose profile you're viewing.

[Razasharp]

Originally Posted by kh99

Oh - you probably want to use $userinfo, because $bbuserinfo will always be you, no matter whose profile you're viewing.

You're right! Duh, I should have thought of that!

Thank you