Using the timesince plugin with {edit_date}
Development and Programming
I tried using the Timesince plugin with the {edit_date} variable, and got crazily negative results. After verifying that it did work correctly for {entry_date}, I did a little looking in the database. {edit_date} is stored in the database in a totally different format from the other dates, so that plugin isn’t going to work without a lot of reworking.
Am I missing something? Any suggestions?
Thanks
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dwex, that plugin doesn’t support edit_date. You’d need to modify the plugin to make it work. I’m going to move this to the Plugins forum for additional community involvement.
OK, so I hacked together a version of the Timesince plugin that takes an ‘edit_date’ parameter, and if it’s set to “yes”, runs the date through $LOC->timestamp_to_gmt() before processing.
This seems rather ugly, but I can’t figure out any good way to figure out whether or not to do that based solely on the input, except perhaps to choose to do it heuristically based on the length of the input data.
Any thoughts?
The documentation link in the Timesince plugin leads to a 404 page; I’m guessing this isn’t supported any more. Any suggestions on what to do with an updated plugin? Create my own ‘Timesince2’ and post that?
That plugin was created awhile ago, the author may have moved on. You can redistribute it only i the licensing allows - you can check the PHP file for the type of licensing.
Otherwise, you’ll just need to re-code it or use it on your own sites and not distribute the changes. =)
Hmm. The only copyright in the plugin itself is a 2004 edition pMachine copyright statement, and the download library lists the license type as ‘Freeware’. Your suggestion?
I’m still not satisfied with the technical approach; this just has the feel of a bad hack…