show date & time for comments (except the same day) but still only show date in thread-overview

rocknroll_alien

ok, i know it's a bit confusing and i'm starting to think i'm confusing myself more and more but i tried about thousands of possibilities now and i guess i'm losing track... :-P

so what i want is:

• _in_ discussions:
  • for comments at the same day only show time (as usual)
  • for older comments show date **and** time ('%d %B - %R')
• at discussion overview:
  • for discussions where last comment was at the same day only show time (as usual)
  • for discussions where last comment was earlier still only show date

i alredy tried many variatons of-date($Object->DateInserted, ('Y m d') == date($Now, ('Y m d')) and similar stuff in various files but nothing ever worked... is there a much easier solution which i just can't see or what am i doing wrong?

thanks for help in advance!

422

Search for timeago

Demo http://vanillaskins.com/response

peregrine

you could also take a look at the Unreadicon plugin

and modify it to your needs.

It will show you how to test for time difference and then you can reformat the time in a plugin or in the helper_functions.php file.

422

Search for timeago

Demo http://vanillaskins.com/response

rocknroll_alien

that gives me 4 results:

• 1. Display full timestamp -- _just how to change time format_
• 2. & 3. "How did wikihow forum realize to show "minutes ago" and not date/time?" -- _still simple question of time-format_
• 4. Change style based on time/date? -- _looks quite interesting but still quite complicated (with image-file and stuff), shouldn't this be possible in a less complicated way?_

in the class.format-file it's quite easy to define, so it also should be in other files or what's my mistake in thoughts?

422

I dont understnd your question.

You want to change Posted:9.24 am to Posted:4 minutes ago ?

rocknroll_alien

no, not at all.

i want to change "posted april 24" to "posted april 24 - 13:22h" but only in discussions and only if the comment is not from the same day... so i changed defaultdateformat to '%d %B - %R'... but then there's the problem that in the thread-overview the format is changed too of course (and that doesn't look good). so i have to add something that changes that again, but only for the thread-overview.

the other version is that i only change the time format in the theme/view/discussion folder, but then i have to add something ("if-else" like mentioned in first posting) which because of an unknown reason doesn't work... so why does this not work:

$Now = time();
$posttime = Gdn_Format::Date($Object->DateInserted);

if (date($posttime, 'Y m d') == date ($Now, 'Y m d'))

peregrine

you could also take a look at the Unreadicon plugin

and modify it to your needs.

It will show you how to test for time difference and then you can reformat the time in a plugin or in the helper_functions.php file.

rocknroll_alien

ok, thanks a lot for the idea, i took a short look at the code of the plugin now and it seems to contain some new ideas, will have a closer look at it soon... :-) (now i have to get some sleep cause it's 3am here)
and i forgot to mention that, but i'm working in the helper-functions.php file most of the time...

422

Shouldnt be to difficult all that info is stored. Best of luck

rocknroll_alien

if it was that easy for me i wouldn't still be here... i'm cunfused... i think i got pretty close but i have one more question:

when
$indate = date($Sender->EventArguments['Comment']->DateInserted);
echoes: "2012-06-10 00:06:26"

why
$indate = date('Y m d', $Sender->EventArguments['Comment']->DateInserted);
echoes "1970 01 01"

?!

422

Epoch. You more than likely need to define another var, then parse it like $MyCustomDateTime

rocknroll_alien

finally i found a solution, i just used a little trick (i just cut the date-string)... so if anyone is interested, here's the code for the helper-functions.php file in the "discussion" folder:

<.span class="DateCreated">

        <?php
        $indate = $Sender->EventArguments['Comment']->DateInserted;
        $subindate = substr($indate, 0, 10);
        $subyear = substr($indate, 0, 4);
        $toyear = date('Y');
        $todate = date('Y-m-d');

         if ($todate == $subindate) {
         echo Anchor(Gdn_Format::Date($Object->DateInserted), $Permalink, 'Permalink', array('name' => 'Item_'.($CurrentOffset+1), 'rel' => 'nofollow'));
        } else {
           if ($subyear == $toyear) {
        echo Anchor(Gdn_Format::Date($Object->DateInserted, ('%d %B / %R')), $Permalink, 'Permalink', array('name' => 'Item_'.($CurrentOffset+1), 'rel' => 'nofollow'));   
           } else {
              echo Anchor(Gdn_Format::Date($Object->DateInserted, ('%B %Y')), $Permalink, 'Permalink', array('name' => 'Item_'.($CurrentOffset+1), 'rel' => 'nofollow'));   
           }
           
        }
        ?>
     </span>