How Many Minutes and Hours Past Since Last Post or Thread.

[ghazal]

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Name: How Many Minutes and Hours Past Since Last Post or Thread.
Description: It will show that how many minutes or hours OR both past since there was a post or thread was made. The result will be shown on Index.php file (i.e. homepage) and Forumdisplay.php file.
Coding: So lets start coding.

Open inc/functions.php

Add following code to the bottom of this file before ?> .

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/**
 * Calculates how many minutes past since the given time.
 *
 * @param int The unix timestamp of the given time
 * @return string The formatted time
 */
function timeAgo($last)
{
    global $mybb, $mybbadmin, $lang;
    
    $timenow = TIME_NOW;
    $diff = $timenow - $last;
    
    if(!$offset && $offset != '0')
    {
        if($mybb->user['uid'] != 0 && array_key_exists("timezone", $mybb->user))
        {
            $offset = $mybb->user['timezone'];
            $dstcorrection = $mybb->user['dst'];
        }
        elseif(defined("IN_ADMINCP"))
        {
            $offset =  $mybbadmin['timezone'];
            $dstcorrection = $mybbadmin['dst'];
        }
        else
        {
            $offset = $mybb->settings['timezoneoffset'];
            $dstcorrection = $mybb->settings['dstcorrection'];
        }

        // If DST correction is enabled, add an additional hour to the timezone.
        if($dstcorrection == 1)
        {
            ++$offset;
            if(my_substr($offset, 0, 1) != "-")
            {
                $offset = "+".$offset;
            }
        }
    }

    if($offset == "-")
    {
        $offset = 0;
    }
        
    if($last < $timenow && $diff <= 46200)
    {
        $order = $timenow - $last;
        while($order >= 60){
            $order = $order-60;
            $ordermleft++;
        }
        while($ordermleft >= 60){
            $ordermleft = $ordermleft-60;
            $orderhleft++;
        }

        if($ordermleft == 0){
            $ordermleft = "";
        } else {
            $ordermleft = "$ordermleft {$lang->minutes}";
        }
        if($orderhleft == 0){
            $orderhleft = "";
        } elseif($orderhleft == 1) {
            $orderhleft = "$orderhleft {$lang->hour}";
        } else {
            $orderhleft = "$orderhleft {$lang->hours}";
        }
        
        if(!$ordermleft || $ordermleft == 1){ $ordermleft = "1 {$lang->minute}"; }
        $actualtime = gmdate($mybb->settings['timeformat'], $last + ($offset * 3600));
        
        if($orderhleft)
        {
            $result = "<abbr title=\"$actualtime\">$orderhleft {$lang->df_ago}</abbr>";
        } else {
            $result = "<abbr title=\"$actualtime\">$ordermleft {$lang->df_ago}</abbr>";
        }
            
        return $result;
    } else {
        return gmdate($mybb->settings['timeformat'], $last + ($offset * 3600));
    }
} 


and save the file,

Now open .inc/functions_forumlist.php and about 1/3rd of its bottom, find this code.

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$lastpost_date = my_date($mybb->settings['dateformat'], 

$lastpost_data['lastpost']);
$lastpost_time = my_date($mybb->settings['timeformat'], $lastpost_data['lastpost']); 


FOUND... ! okay, Just replace it with the following,

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$lastpost_time = timeAgo($lastpost_data['lastpost']);
if(ereg($lang->minute, $lastpost_time) || ereg($lang->hour, $lastpost_time))
{
    $lastpost_date = "";
}
else
{
    $lastpost_date = my_date($mybb->settings['dateformat'], $lastpost_data['lastpost']);
} 


and save the file,

Now open forumdisplay.php and about 1/3rd to its bottom, find the following code,

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$lastpostdate = my_date($mybb->settings['dateformat'], $thread['lastpost']);
$lastposttime = my_date($mybb->settings['timeformat'], $thread['lastpost']); 


FOUND... ??? Okays, lets replace it with the following code,

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$lastposttime = timeAgo($thread['lastpost']);
if(ereg($lang->minute, $lastposttime) || ereg($lang->hour, $lastposttime))
{
    $lastpostdate = "";
}
else
{
    $lastpostdate = my_date($mybb->settings['dateformat'], $thread['lastpost']);
} 


and save the file,

Now go to .inc/languages/english/ and open global.lang.php file and add the following code before ?>

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$l['df_ago'] = "Ago"; 


FINISHED. . . !

Now refresh your index (homepage) , It should look like this,

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Now open Your forumdisplay.php , It should look like this,

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Cool... ENJOY.

[Hero]

Thank you for this wonderful tip. I may use it someday.

[ghazal]

(09-27-2009 09:32 AM)Hero Wrote:  Thank you for this wonderful tip. I may use it someday.

Yours welcome

[Chandy]

Yah another nice tutorial

[Ansar Bajwa]

very good tutorial.