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PunBB Forums → Feature requests → replacing timestamps with "posted 47 minutes ago" etc.
I'd love if it the timestamps on the index and viewforum pages could be set to a "14 minutes ago" or "4 weeks ago" format. I find it much clearer and more informative at a glance, than looking at the date and time, then comparing it to the current date and time, etc.
If there's a mod out there that already does this, then please point me in its direction 
There's no mod out there to do this that I know of, but this PHP class has a function to print out a date in that format. With a little modding, you might be able to get PunBB to use that.
I would really like this also...the link your supplied pogenwurst is now not working
Also since last year maybe someone has done this??
any help would be awesome
http://www.avengex.com/tutorials/82
That should be all the code you need to integrate it
Although I would take this:
$wcount = 0;
for($wcount = 0; $difference>$week; $wcount++) {
$difference = $difference - $week;
}
$dcount = 0;
for($dcount = 0; $difference>$day; $dcount++) {
$difference = $difference - $day;
}
$hcount = 0;
for($hcount = 0; $difference>$hour; $hcount++) {
$difference = $difference - $hour;
}
$mcount = 0;
for($mcount = 0; $difference>$minute;
$mcount++) {
$difference = $difference - $minute;
}and instead do this (I think this code should work, tell me if it doesn't)
$wcount = floor($difference / $week);
$difference = $difference - ($wcount * $week);
$dcount = floor($difference / $day);
$difference = $difference - ($dcount * $day);
$hcount = floor($difference / $hour);
$difference = $difference - ($hcount * $hour);
$mcount = floor($difference / $minute);
$difference = $difference - ($mcount * $minute);thanks for the quick response...I found a good solution just by messing with the code of punbbs date function (inspired by this post: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7436)
here is my code:
function format_time($timestamp, $date_only = false)
{
global $pun_config, $lang_common, $pun_user;
if (!$date_only)
{
$diff = time() - $timestamp;
$rest = ($diff % 3600);
$restdays = ($diff % 86400);
$restweeks = ($diff % 604800);
$weeks = ($diff - $restweeks) / 604800;
$days = ($diff - $restdays) / 86400;
$hours = ($diff - $rest) / 3600;
$seconds = ($rest % 60);
$minutes = ($rest - $seconds) / 60;
if ($timestamp == '')
return $lang_common['Never'];
if($weeks > 1)
return $date."$weeks weeks ago";
elseif($days > 1)
return $date."$days days ago";
elseif($hours > 1)
return $date."$hours hours ago";
elseif ($hours == 1)
return $date."1 hour, $minutes mins ago";
elseif ($minutes == 0)
return $date."$seconds seconds ago";
elseif ($minutes == 1)
return $date."1 minute ago";
elseif ($seconds < 60)
return $date."$minutes mins ago";
}
else{
$diff = ($pun_user['timezone'] - $pun_config['o_server_timezone']) * 3600;
$timestamp += $diff;
$now = time();
$date = date($pun_config['o_date_format'], $timestamp);
$today = date($pun_config['o_date_format'], $now+$diff);
$yesterday = date($pun_config['o_date_format'], $now+$diff-86400);
return $date;
}
}I'd also like this added to 1.3
Alternative date/time schemes would be extensions
I find it much clearer and more informative at a glance, than looking at the date and time, then comparing it to the current date and time, etc.
I agree, this would be way more meaningful!!
can someone please mod this now for 1.2? (no point waiting for extensions to 1.3 - it ain't even finished...)
I'm no expert but this sounds pretty easy to do/minimal files to change
nickfzx's post above didn't help?
where do you paste that code?
what code do you replace?
filenames to edit and line numbers would help me a lot
format_time function in include/functions.php
cheers, works well, but I really want to still have the timestamp but have the "posted 47 minutes ago" after the timestamp in brackets
that's the best of both worlds!!
thanks for the quick response...I found a good solution just by messing with the code of punbbs date function (inspired by this post: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7436)
here is my code:
function format_time($timestamp, $date_only = false) { global $pun_config, $lang_common, $pun_user; if (!$date_only) { $diff = time() - $timestamp; // .... if ($timestamp == '') { return $lang_common['Never']; } // .... }
I'm not a good PHP developer, but this looks pretty strange to me.
I mean, you calculate using $timestamp and later you check if $timestamp has a propper value.
I think PHP takes care of this (at least it tries to).
But it would be better if you first check $timestamp for the propper value and then use it for calculating.
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