Smarty - elapsed time since posted for an entry?

[Don Chambers]

Is it possible to know the difference between an entry's timestamp and the current time?

I'm working on a template that I would like to show the number of hours (and/or minutes) elapsed since the timestamp if the elapsed time is under a predetermined value (ie, perhaps less than 24 hours old)... and if greater than that value, show the timestamp as usual.

Ideas?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes, $smarty.now contains the current timestamp. Using {math} you can evaluate the difference between that and your entry's timestamp.

Regards,
Garvin

[judebert]

It looks like you want human-readable date/time stamps. (Now I feel like that retarded paper clip!) Smarty doesn't actually include that function, but people have written modifiers to do the job.

Here's a Smarty forum post with two friendly time stamps.

This can go in your template's config.inc.php, as you already know.

[tpost]

We use the second Smarty modifier that judebert linked to in his post on our homepage.

Although we did make one customization to allow for weeks to be shown as well!

[Don Chambers]

I thought that tip had weeks.... anyway - care to share the config.inc.php code as well as how you use it in the tpl?