[release vb2.0b3] World Timezones on indexpage

[Mas*Mind]

This hack puts a list of the worldtimezones on your index page, instructions and needed files are in the attached zipfile..

Currently there's no demo so if someone has installed it, plz add a link to it...

I've not tested it thoroughly but it seems to be working well..

enjoy :)

[Mas*Mind]

I've coded all timezones very quickly, but if you wanna change it, just edit:


$timezones[-12] = "Eniwetok, Kwajalein";
$timezones[-11] = "Midway Island, Samoa";
$timezones[-10] = "Hawaii";
$timezones[-9] = "Alaska";
$timezones[-8] = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-7] = "Mountain Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-6] = "Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City";
$timezones[-5] = "Eastern Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-4] = "Atlantic Time (Canada)";
$timezones[-3] = "Brazil, Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "London, UK";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Netherlands";
$timezones[2] = "Kaliningrad, South Africa";
$timezones[3] = "Baghdad, Kuwait";
$timezones[4] = "Tehran";
$timezones[5] = "Ekaterinburg, Islamabad";
$timezones[6] = "Almaty, Dhaka";
$timezones[7] = "Bangkok, Hanoi";
$timezones[8] = "Beijing, Perth, Singapore, Hongkong";
$timezones[9] = "Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka";
$timezones[10] = "Guam, Papua New Guinea";
$timezones[11] = "Magadan, Solomon Islands";
$timezones[12] = "Auckland, Wellington, Fiji";

To reflect the correct zones...You can move some array-elements if you don't wanna display them...

[Mas*Mind]

Example shot:

[fastforward]

Now that's what I call quick service. :)

Thanks!

[eva2000]

wow that was quick ... *** runs off to install it ***

[jojo85]

Originally posted by Mas*Mind
Example shot:

Very nice!!
Will install it monday !

[eva2000]

came out strange for some reason ?

http://animeboards.com/tzindex.php

[Mas*Mind]

Don't see anything from my hack on that page :confused:

It looks a bit funny though..

[eva2000]

yeah i know i have no idea of what included that :confused:

[Mas*Mind]

You really mean the installation of my hack included that funny timezone utility? Mabye you have to rename timezone.php to something else (don't forget to change the reference to include("timezone.php"); in index.php also..)

[Lost]

Great hack:D:D
Thanx m8....

[Mas*Mind]

The only reason that *might* explain it is that you maybe have an existing timezone.php in your php include-dir?

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Mas*Mind
The only reason that *might* explain it is that you maybe have an existing timezone.php in your php include-dir? LOL i forgot i had another timezone script i uploaded a while back -

seems to work now

http://animeboards.com/timezindex.php :D

[Mas*Mind]

Hehehe

You just saved me from a headeache ;)

Glad it works now :)

[fastforward]

>>> Eastern Australian Standard Time (AEST), Guam, Papua New Guinea Sunday 05:48

Isn't this your timezone eva2000? If so, what are you doing up at this ungodly hour? GO TO BED!

[eva2000]

Originally posted by fastforward
>>> Eastern Australian Standard Time (AEST), Guam, Papua New Guinea Sunday 05:48

Isn't this your timezone eva2000? If so, what are you doing up at this ungodly hour? GO TO BED! hehe it's the only time i get to correspond with everyone else in the USA :D

that and did i tell you I'm a vB addict :D

[eva2000]

well it's done - http://animeboards.com/index.php?s= :D

[Mas*Mind]

Looks good, only the image is broken...

You can change the number of columns if you want btw...($percol in timezone.php)

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Mas*Mind
Looks good, only the image is broken...

You can change the number of columns if you want btw...($percol in timezone.php) strange you mean the folder icon ? seems fine for me

is that number of rows or columns ?

[Joe]

The image is linked to images/.gif ... no image name, comes up with a red X.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Joe
The image is linked to images/.gif ... no image name, comes up with a red X. strange i am seeing a folder images/on.gif on mine

anyway i removed the image as it servers no purpose :)

[Mas*Mind]

my bad; I referrenced to $onoff.gif in the timezonelist-template...

It probably doesn't work for use because we had no cookie set...

[tubedogg]

Excellent hack. :) I didn't have time to get started on it and already you released it! :D

[Limey]

How do u change the default time is now?

I tried changing the $i= variable but no dice.

[Mas*Mind]

What do you mean? You shouldn't touch the $i variable, it's used for other purposes...

The script makes use of you configurations timezone offset (the one in your cp-general settings), so if you set that right all times should be displayed correctly

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by eva2000
is that number of rows or columns ?

Number of columns btw...

[surfichris]

eva2000, can you please post your timezones for me? as i am from Australia as well, Sydney to be exact

[eva2000]

Originally posted by surfichris
eva2000, can you please post your timezones for me? as i am from Australia as well, Sydney to be exact what do you mean post my timezones ?

i just loaded timezone.php that came with the hack :)

it all depends on where your server/webhost is located as well

[surfichris]

wow! thats one speedy response! :D
can you tell me the line you modified for EAST (Eastern Australia Time)

thanks

btw - where can i get a copy of your getinfo template, its kool

[mrlister]

wow. great hack man

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by surfichris
wow! thats one speedy response! :D
can you tell me the line you modified for EAST (Eastern Australia Time)

thanks

btw - where can i get a copy of your getinfo template, its kool

You don't have to modify anything as long if you configured the timezoneoffset in your controlpanel (general settings) right...

[jojo85]

Originally posted by Mas*Mind


You don't have to modify anything as long if you configured the timezoneoffset in your controlpanel (general settings) right...

and how we know that is right???

[Mas*Mind]

If you're threadtimes are corresponding your timezone...

[bokhalifa]

help my
http://bokhalifa.org/daar/bo/timezone.php

[Mas*Mind]

You didn't follow the instructions properly...

timezone.php isn't a standalone script, but needs to be included in the index.php

re-read the instructions plz

[bokhalifa]

thanks
Mas*Mind;)

now wirking
good
http://bokhalifa.org/daar/bo/index.php


:D

[Mas*Mind]

Looks good..only the image is broken...

you have to change the $onoff.gif to another one....

Translated:

...nekorb si egami eht ylno..doog skooL

...eno rehtona ot fig.ffono$ eht egnahc ot evah uoy

:D

[bokhalifa]

thanks
Mas*Mind
looool:D


thanks
Translated:
:D

[almighty one]

i followed the instructions as far as i can tell but i dont show this on ym board grrrr where exactly is it you add
$timezonelist
i tried it in a few places but as i say my thing isnt showing up =[

[almighty one]

can someone make an install for idiots :) i seem to not be bale to get this to work at all please help a dummy

[almighty one]

ok ok i got the hack to work but can anyone tell me how to edit the colors make like the times one color and the cities another and maybe how to get a bigger space inbetween the infos it is kinda crammed

[eva2000]

Originally posted by almighty one
i followed the instructions as far as i can tell but i dont show this on ym board grrrr where exactly is it you add
$timezonelist
i tried it in a few places but as i say my thing isnt showing up =[ if you haven't changed the location of $pminfo in your forumhome template, then put $timezonelist under the variable $pminfo

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by almighty one
ok ok i got the hack to work but can anyone tell me how to edit the colors make like the times one color and the cities another and maybe how to get a bigger space inbetween the infos it is kinda crammed

Just edit the template timezone_city

[almighty one]

Originally posted by Mas*Mind


Just edit the template timezone_city
i tried that but then the whole thing disappears :confused:

[almighty one]

Originally posted by almighty one

i tried that but then the whole thing disappears :confused:
i tried that then the whole thing just disappears :confused:

[Mas*Mind]

how does it look like now then? (the template)

[almighty one]

Originally posted by Mas*Mind
how does it look like now then? (the template) <smallfont><b>$cities</b> $datetime</smallfont><br>
well to split it and make the time post under the cities looks as if ya put another <br> inbetween but how can i make the time post in a color or the cities post in another color also is it possable to make them post in a table type border where as the cities match the 1st alt color and the time posts ina table color to the 2nd alt color

[Mas*Mind]

You could do something like this:

<table>
<tr>
<td><smallfont><b>$cities</b></smallfont></td>
<td><smallfont color="{ timecolor }">$datetime</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

(remove the spaces between { timecolor })

[almighty one]

thanx will try that didnt divide it into table oh well no biggie ill live with it as it is

[Mas*Mind]

what do you want exactly then? Anything is possible with the templates...as long as you know howto code html...

[almighty one]

well like in the actaul vbb ya have 2 alt colors and it is tabled across the screen like you have the little box with the vb_bullet.gif that has 1st alt color then ya got the forum name 2nd alt color then ya got #posts 1st alt color then ya got #views 2nd alt color etc etc i would like mt cities to be in 1st alt color and the times to be in 2nd alt color to kinda match the forums

[Mas*Mind]

try this (untested, don't use the hack myself actually)

timezone_city_col:

<td valign="top"><table>$citycol</table></td>

timezone_city:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{ firstaltcolor }"><smallfont><b>$cities</b></smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor }"><smallfont color="{ timecolor }">$datetime</smallfont></td>
</tr>

Remove the spaces out of the { blabla } variables

[almighty one]

yes yes it worked thanx alot :)

[Christian]

One question:

Is it possible to have/make more than one entry for a certain timezone?

[Mas*Mind]

what do you mean exactly?

[Christian]

For example:



$timezones[-3] = "Brasilia";
$timezones[-3] = "Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "Casablanca, Monrovia";
$timezones[0] = "Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome. Stockholm, Vienna";
$timezones[1] = "Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague";
$timezones[1] = "Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Vilnius";
$timezones[1] = "Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofija, Warsaw, Zagreb";
$timezones[1] = "West-Central Africa";
$timezones[2] = "Athens, Istanbul, Minsk";
$timezones[2] = "Bucharest";
$timezones[2] = "Cairo";



It only reads out one entry!

I'm not 100% familiar with PHP yet!
Does the [x] mean that $timezones is an array?

[orca]

Great hack, worked like a charm.

[Wolverine]

Now all you have to do is link the timezones to the "who's online" feature.

:)

[JJR512]

The time zone 0, the one with London, should not say Greenwich Mean Time. Even though London is in the same time zone as GMT, they are not always the same time. That's because London, in fact all of England, go on Daylight Savings Time, but Greenwich does not. GMT is the same all year round, but the actual time in that time zone may actually be GMT+1 when on DST. (Yes, oddly enough, that means that during part of the year, even Greenwich itself is GMT+1!)

I think this whole thing about GMT not going on DST while the time zone does is very confusing to many people, and actually leads to some errors in vBulletin. For example, right now on my board, my time zone offset is -5, and the board tells "all times are GMT -5 hours". But that's not true. Right now, my time is GMT -4 hours. My time zone, Eastern Time, is on DST. On standard time, ET is GMT -5, but when ET is on DST, it's GMT -4. Now compared to the actual time in England, I am -5 hours. But not compared to GMT.

Is this making sense?

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by Christian
For example:



$timezones[-3] = "Brasilia";
$timezones[-3] = "Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "Casablanca, Monrovia";
$timezones[0] = "Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome. Stockholm, Vienna";
$timezones[1] = "Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague";
$timezones[1] = "Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Vilnius";
$timezones[1] = "Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofija, Warsaw, Zagreb";
$timezones[1] = "West-Central Africa";
$timezones[2] = "Athens, Istanbul, Minsk";
$timezones[2] = "Bucharest";
$timezones[2] = "Cairo";



It only reads out one entry!

I'm not 100% familiar with PHP yet!
Does the [x] mean that $timezones is an array?

Yep, it's an array; So you can't do that I'm affraid... Maybe I'll work on it...

[Christian]

Perhaps a for loop in a for loop would do it!

In JAVA it would be no prob for me!



for (i=... ; i<=timezones[].length; i++)
{
for (j=0; j<=timeszones[i].length, j++)
{
.
.
.



is that possible with PHP also?

[eva2000]

still works with VB 2 final :D

[Kengan]

Very useful !! Thanks man !:D

[ldydvr]

Is there any problems within this hack if installed on the security updated 2.0.3 ?

[eva2000]

Originally posted by ldydvr
Is there any problems within this hack if installed on the security updated 2.0.3 ? works with 2.0.3 since i use it :)

[ldydvr]

Thanks eva2k!

=-)

[centris]

Originally posted by ldydvr
Is there any problems within this hack if installed on the security updated 2.0.3 ?

Yes I upgraded to 2.03 and then installed the hack - works well, though a tip: change the col var from 13 to 5 looks neat.

[j_lorence]

Is there anyway I can edit it to where i can show countries in the same timezone, but on seperate lines? Like say for instance i live in Missouri which is Central Time, and Mexico City is also Central Time. But the only way i can show them both is if i put them on the same line like this ...

$timezones[-6] = "Missouri, Mexico City";

I tried putting...

$timezones[-6] = "Missouri";
$timezones[-6] = "Mexico City";

but it would only show one of them. Any ideas?

[Chen]

I installed it, works great. Good job! :)

But how can I modify this to have it pop up when I click on something?
Kinda like the 'Who Posted?' stuff.

[Chen]

Anyone came up with a way?

[Chen]

There's a little bug I just found out.

The template timezonelist contains

<img src="{images}/$lightbulb.gif" alt="">
The problem is when you are not logged in, the image is broken ($lightbulb is not defined).

So what I did is just changed it to

<img src="{images}/clock.gif" alt="">
(When clock.gif is a little image I did with a world and a clock)

I'm using v2.0.3, so I'm not sure if this is also a problem on earlier versions. :rolleyes:

EDIT: Just saw that this is mentioned before. :p Sorry. :(

[centris]

Ah the Lightbulb bug, this one had me stumped for a while he he

<img src="{imagesfolder}/on.gif" alt=""></td>

This is what I did, )always on (as the calculation of the time is)

[handheld234]

This hack looks great [saw it on another site]. I think though it doesn't account for daylight savings time [like the US Pacific Time] May need to manually adjust for that???. Also, has anyone been able to put it somewhere else on a page outside of the forum tables???

I would just like to add a tiny table with 6 or so timezones in it at another spot on my page.

Thanks.

[handheld234]

I'm going to try this but instead of putting the times in the main table I am going to try to stick it in the footer instead by sticking $timezonelist down there. Will see what happens...

[handheld234]

Doesn't work in the footer. Nothing came up.

[TheComputerGuy]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gettemplate() in /home/moneytec/public_html/forums/timezone.php on line 39



I get that...anyone know why?

[chacho]

I still have this question..........




<?php

$dateformat = "l H:i";
$percol = 13;

$timezones[-12] = "Eniwetok, Kwajalein";
$timezones[-11] = "Midway Island, Samoa";
$timezones[-10] = "Hawaii";
$timezones[-9] = "Alaska";
$timezones[-8] = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-7] = "Mountain Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-6] = "Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City";
$timezones[-5] = "Eastern Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-4] = "Atlantic Time (Canada)";
$timezones[-3] = "Brazil, Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "London, UK";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Netherlands";
$timezones[2] = "Kaliningrad, South Africa";
$timezones[3] = "Baghdad, Kuwait";
$timezones[4] = "Tehran";
$timezones[5] = "Ekaterinburg, Islamabad";
$timezones[6] = "Almaty, Dhaka";
$timezones[7] = "Bangkok, Hanoi";
$timezones[8] = "Beijing, Perth, Singapore, Hongkong";
$timezones[9] = "Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka";
$timezones[10] = "Guam, Papua New Guinea";
$timezones[11] = "Magadan, Solomon Islands";
$timezones[12] = "Auckland, Wellington, Fiji";

$i=0;

while(list($timediff, $cities)=each($timezones))
{ $i++;
$servertime = $timeoffset - $timediff;
$timestamp = mktime (date("H")-$servertime, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"));
$datetime = date($dateformat, $timestamp);
eval("\$citycol .= \"".gettemplate('timezone_city')."\";");
if($i % $percol == 0)
{ eval("\$cityzones .= \"".gettemplate('timezone_city_col')."\";");
unset($citycol);
}
}

if($i % $percol != 0)
eval("\$cityzones .= \"".gettemplate('timezone_city_col')."\";");

eval("\$timezonelist .= \"".gettemplate('timezonelist')."\";");

?>



That is the code in the part




$dateformat = "l H:i";
$percol = 13;



Can I change the Colums to 3 Colums instead of only 2 of them. Thansk if you can help me with that one.

[chacho]

TO change those 2 Colums to 3 Colums I just have to do some Math. LOL your colums are 13 in each, so there were 2 colums that ADD to 26, my aproximation was 26/3 give me a uneven number. I just put 9 It looks just the way I want it and now I have 3 Colums. Again Awesome hack. If you want to have 3 colums intead of 2 just change this


in timezone.php


Find:



$dateformat = "l H:i";
$percol = 13;




Change it to this




$dateformat = "l H:i";
$percol = 9;





Thanks very much For this Hack, now it looks just the way I wanted. You the Man!!!!!!!!!!

[Cyrus]

Nope doesnt work with me :(

I cant even find the first thing to replace in the index.php.

:( :(

I am running vb 2.0 final

Can anyone help as I would love to add this hack !

[weezle]

Originally posted by Cyrus
Nope doesnt work with me :(

I cant even find the first thing to replace in the index.php.

:( :(

I am running vb 2.0 final

Can anyone help as I would love to add this hack !

In vbb2final Look for this




$templatesused='forumhome_birthdaybit,error_noperm ission,forumhome_pmloggedin,forumhome_welcometext, forumhome_logoutcode,forumhome_newposts,forumhome_ todayposts,forumhome_logincode,forumhome_loggedinu ser,forumhome_loggedinusers,forumhome_lastpostby,f orumhome_moderator,forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopos t,forumhome_forumbit_level1_post,forumhome_forumbi t_level2_nopost,forumhome_forumbit_level2_post,for umhome,forumhome_unregmessage';

Replace it with this:

$templatesused='error_nopermission,forumhome_pmlog gedin,forumhome_welcometext,forumhome_logoutcode,f orumhome_newposts,forumhome_todayposts,forumhome_l ogincode,forumhome_loggedinuser,forumhome_loggedin users,forumhome_lastpostby,forumhome_moderator,for umhome_forumbit_level1_nopost,forumhome_forumbit_l evel1_post,forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost,forumh ome_forumbit_level2_post,forumhome,forumhome_unreg message,timezonelist,timezone_city,timezone_city_c ol';

[Bald Bouncer]

I was informed that the times for Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka are out by a hour, I not sure if this is right but I have adjusted and added Melbourne and Sydney time that are correct at the moment.
Just change this in the timezone.php


$timezones[-12] = "Eniwetok, Kwajalein";
$timezones[-11] = "Midway Island, Samoa";
$timezones[-10] = "Hawaii";
$timezones[-9] = "Alaska";
$timezones[-8] = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-7] = "Mountain Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-6] = "Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City";
$timezones[-5] = "Eastern Time (US & Canada)";
$timezones[-4] = "Atlantic Time (Canada)";
$timezones[-3] = "Brazil, Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "UK GMT";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Netherlands";
$timezones[2] = "Kaliningrad, South Africa";
$timezones[3] = "Baghdad, Kuwait";
$timezones[4] = "Tehran";
$timezones[5] = "Ekaterinburg, Islamabad";
$timezones[6] = "Almaty, Dhaka";
$timezones[7] = "Bangkok, Hanoi";
$timezones[8] = "Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka";
$timezones[9] = "Melbourne, Sydney";
$timezones[10] = "Guam, Papua New Guinea";
$timezones[11] = "Magadan, Solomon Islands";
$timezones[12] = "Auckland, Wellington, Fiji";

If I’m wrong please tell me because it wouldn’t be the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last :)
BB

[eva2000]

mines out by an hour since Brisbane doesn't have daylight savings anymore :)

[web]

Just installed this one. My second hack installation :D
Installation was a breeze and it works as 'advertised.'

Thanks much.

web

[DixonsNL]

this is a really cool hack man, thnx !!

[Cyrus]

could this some how be integrated onto vbportal ?