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ngardner
Smarty n00b
Joined: 13 Oct 2010
Posts: 2
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 Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:53 pm Post subject: My modifier that converts date/time to human friendly phrase |
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I'm unable to post links since this is my first post, so I added it to the smarty plugin wiki page.
Its a modifier plugin which converts a date into something human friendly such as '2 minutes ago', 'Tuesday at 3:52pm', or 'March 12 at 6:49am' just like Facebook does. Works great for comments and message boards!
Its added to the Smarty Plugin wiki pages as 'timeSpan'
Please let me know what you think. |
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elpmis
Smarty Elite
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
Posts: 321
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ngardner
Smarty n00b
Joined: 13 Oct 2010
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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yes, similar to that, but I think mine is easier to modify so you can add/modify your own phrases.
Heres the code
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<?php
/**
* Smarty plugin
* @package Smarty
* @subpackage plugins
*/
/**
* Smarty time span plugin
*
* Type: modifier<br>
* Name: timeSpan<br>
* Purpose: convert date to a human friendly string such as "32 minutes ago"
* @link:
* @author Nathan Gardner <nathan at factory8 dot com>
* @param string
* @return string
*/
function smarty_modifier_timeSpan($string)
{
$timestamp = strtotime($string);
$now = time();
$timeSpan = $now-$timestamp;
$date = date("m/d/y",$timestamp);
$dateNow = date("m/d/y",$now);
$dayOfMonth = date("l",$timestamp);
$time = date("g:ia",$timestamp);
$minutes = round($timeSpan/60);
$hours = round($timeSpan/3600);
$month = date("F",$timestamp);
$dayOfMonthNumeric = date("d",$timestamp);
$year = date("Y",$timestamp);
$yearNow = date("Y",$now);
if($timeSpan < 180) { // less than 3 minutes
$spanMessage = 'Just now';
} else if ($timeSpan < 3000) { // less than 50 minutes ago
$spanMessage = $minutes . ' minutes ago';
} else if ($timeSpan < 86400) { // less than 24 hours ago
$spanMessage = $hours . ' hours ago';
} else if ($date == $dateNow) { // yesterday
$spanMessage = 'Yesterday at ' . $time;
} else if ($timeSpan < 432000) { // less than 5 days ago
$spanMessage = $dayOfMonth . ' at ' . $time;
} else if ($year == $yearNow) { // more than 5 days ago this year
$spanMessage = $month . ' ' . $dayOfMonthNumeric . ' at '. $time;
} else { // more than a year ago
$spanMessage = $month . ' ' . $dayOfMonthNumeric . ' ' . $year . ' at ' . $time;
}
return $spanMessage;
}
?>
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mohrt
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Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Posts: 7368
Location: Lincoln Nebraska, USA
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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What if the string passed in is a timestamp already, or not parsible by strtotime()? What if the date is in the future? You might at least do a test and return the string unchanged if there is a problem.
| Code: | $timestamp = strtotime($string);
if(empty($timestamp))
return $string; |
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