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[kenny]

First off, this it not my code, but was posted on phpBB forums somewhere. I have cleaned it up a little and added a little extra bit that shows the time when the post was quoted. This Snippet is available here on this site - you can try it out by posting in the test forum

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        $message_parser->message = '[quote="' . $post_data['quote_username'] . '"]' . censor_text(trim($message_parser->message)) . "[/quote]\n"; 

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//        $message_parser->message = '[quote="' . $post_data['quote_username'] . '"]' . censor_text(trim($message_parser->message)) . "[/quote]\n";
        $message_parser->message = '[quote="' . '[url=' . generate_board_url() . "/viewtopic.$phpEx?p=$post_id#p$post_id" . ']' . $post_data['quote_username'] . ' » ' . $user->format_date($post_data['post_time']) . '[/url]' . '"]' . censor_text(trim($message_parser->message)) . "[/quote]\n";     

[marian0810]

and added a little extra bit that shows the time when the post was quoted.

I was really excited when I found this yesterday, I've been looking for this since the day we upgraded to phpBB3 more that a year ago. The only thing similar I found so far had an annoying bug in it when you use relative times. So yesterday I installed this on my testforum and waited... and found that it has the same bug
So please please please please can you make this work properly for boards that use "today" and "yesterday" instead of just the times? Our users really miss this function.

To clarify:

text above quote doesn't convert to "yesterday" like it should (next day it should show the time only). Instead it stays "vandaag" which means "today" - as you can see it doesn't translate either when I set my profile to English
We had this working perfectly on phpBB2 so it should be possible, right?

[kenny]

*snip*

Works fine for me

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[marian0810]

Well yeah, probably because the post actually is from today But if you check the above post again tomorrow, that same link SHOULD say yesterday but it will in fact still say today.

We had quotes that were months old and still said '"today'

[kenny]

Ah, ok I see it now. This may take a bit more work as that infomation is effectively stored as part of the post in the database. No real easy way to update it. It would probably be simpler to disable the use of relative dates for this

[marian0810]

I guess I had hoped you could tell me how to use the actual date function of phpBB instead

[kenny]

Ah, sorry that's actually what I meant to say - it would be easier to use the actual date function for this. Me and my explanation fails tonight
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$user->format_date($post_data['post_time']) 

Is what should be changed. $user->format_date is what returns the date format. So if you're using relative dates, it will pull that. Changing to something like this would work:

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date("jS F Y, G:i:s", $post_data['post_time']) 

This part in quotes - "jS F Y, G:i:s" can be modified to your liking. php.net gives you a breakdown of all the values you can add. The one I included is my personal preference. I made it up a few years back

[marian0810]

Thank you very much! I'm going to try that immediately

Edit: working perfectly, thanks again!!

[kenny]

Excellent. Hopefully others may benefit from that as well