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Posted by David Zόlke on 09/29/99 11:04
Hi Travis,
stuff like this really belongs into the business logic, not into the display
logic. The _way_ a date/time is shown is controlled by the display logic,
but not the _value_ of the date/time itself.
Cheers and a Happy New Year to you,
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Low [mailto:travis@dawnstar.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 7:29 AM
> To: smarty-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [SMARTY] date offset
>
> Happy new year, everyone.
>
> I have a customer in Australia who uses a server in California. I'd like
> to
> give them a configurable offset value (plus or minus hours) that could be
> used
> to change the time they're seeing. I know I could muck with the time from
> within the application itself, but ultimately, I think it would be better
> if
> the end-user could set the value, so that (for example) users in different
> timezones can adjust the times to suit their locale. Here is a hack of
> modifier.date_format.php that seems to work:
>
> function smarty_modifier_date_format($string, $format="%b %e, %Y",
> $offset=0,
> $default_date=null)
> {
> echo "<h1>$offset</h1>";
> if($string != '') {
> return strftime($format, smarty_make_timestamp($string) +
> ($offset*3600));
> } elseif (isset($default_date) && $default_date != '') {
> return strftime($format, smarty_make_timestamp($default_date) +
> ($offset*3600));
> } else {
> return;
> }
> }
>
> Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work without swapping $offset and
> $default_date, and I fear that may break existing code. Does anyone have
> any
> ideas, and could something like the above be included in the next Smarty
> release?
>
> cheers,
>
> Travis
>
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> <http://www.dawnstar.com>
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