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Title : A date/time management script
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leaping langoor
Date : Jun 12th 2004
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After a long time of hardworking and fixing the problems in the old version, I am proud to release v1.01.

This is a simple dat/time manger class that can be easily plugged in o your system. Here goes

class.datetime_functions.php

Includes a number of functions that are date/time related.

leapinglangoor http://leapinglangoor.l2p.net
ver - 1.0.1


<?php
class datetime_functions
{

   
// constructor
   
function datetime_functions()
    {
       
$this->_class_name    = "Date/Time Functions Class";
       
$this->_class_version = "1.0.0";
       
$this->_class_author  = "leapinglangoor";
    }
     
   
// returns a nicely formatted date string for a SQL date format
   
function sqldate_to_string($t="",$short=0)
    {
        if (
$t=="") return "";
        if (!
$short) $months = array(
           
"January","Februrary","March","April","May","June","July",
           
"August","September","October","November","December"
           
);
        else
$months = array(
           
"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"
           
);

        if (
ereg("^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2})",$t,$args))
            return
sprintf("%s %d, %s",$months[$args[2]-1],$args[3],$args[1]);
        else if (
ereg("^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2})",$t,$args))
            return
sprintf("%s %d, %s",$months[$args[2]-1],$args[3],$args[1]);
        else return
$t;
    }

   
// a function to convert number of seconds (eg; 96172) to a readable format
    // such as: 1 day, 2 hours, 42 mins, and 52 secs
    // takes unix timestamp as input
    // Based on the word_time function from PG+ (http://pgplus.ewtoo.org)
   
function time_to_string($t=0)
    {
        if (!
$t) return "no time at all";
        if (
$t < 0) {
           
$neg = 1;
           
$t = 0 - $t;
        }

       
$days = $t / 86400;
       
$days = floor($days);
       
$hrs = ($t / 3600) % 24;
       
$mins = ($t / 60) % 60;
       
$secs = $t % 60;

       
$timestring = "";
        if (
$neg) $timestring .= "negative ";
        if (
$days) {
           
$timestring .= "$days day" . ($days==1?"":"s");
            if (
$hrs || $mins || $secs) $timestring .= ", ";
        }
        if (
$hrs) {
           
$timestring .= "$hrs hour" . ($hrs==1?"":"s");
            if (
$mins && $secs) $timestring .= ", ";
            if ((
$mins && !$secs) || (!$mins && $secs)) $timestring .= " and ";
        }
        if (
$mins) {
           
$timestring .= "$mins min" . ($mins==1?"":"s");
            if (
$mins && $secs) $timestring .= ", ";
            if (
$secs) $timestring .= " and ";
        }
        if (
$secs) $timestring .= "$secs sec" . ($secs==1?"":"s");     
        return
$timestring;
    }

   
// a function to return a string of when the file was last updated in a slightly
    // fuzzy way.  Takes a unix timestamp as input.
   
function FuzzyTime($time)
    {
       
// sod = start of day :)
       
$now = time();
       
$sod = mktime(0,0,0,date("m",$time),date("d",$time),date("Y",$time));
       
$sod_now = mktime(0,0,0,date("m",$now),date("d",$now),date("Y",$now));
         
        if (
$sod_now == $sod) return "today at " . date("g:ia",$time); // check 'today'
       
if (($sod_now-$sod) <= 86400) return "yesterday at " . date("g:ia",$time); // check 'yesterday'
       
if (($sod_now-$sod) <= (ONE_DAY*5)) return date("l \a\\t g:ia",$time); // give a day name if within the last 5 days
       
if (date("Y",$now) == date("Y",$time)) return date("M j \a\\t g:ia",$time); // miss off the year if it's this year
       
return date("M j, Y \a\\t g:ia",$time); // return the date as normal
   
}
     
}
// end class

?>




And just in case you want an example script for the above,

Original example script for class.datetime_functions.php

Lets begin

Brief description and purpose of this file

To give you a clear cut view on how the class can become useful.
There aew three functions in the class:
        1. sqldate_to_string();
        2. time_to_string();
        3. Fuzzy Time();

The descriptions for the these functions() can be found in the class

I'm just gonna give you an idea on how to use it.

O.K lets begin
Usage Example:

<?php

include('class.datetime_functions.php');

$functions = new datetime_functions;

$formated_t = $functions -> sqldate_to_string("2004-06-12 17:38:14");

echo(
'This is to convert the date from sql to a formatted string.<br>2004-06-12 17:38:14 <b>   -   becomes   -   </b> ' . $functions -> sqldate_to_string("2004-06-12 17:38:14"));
echo(
'<br><br>');

echo(
'This is to convert seconds to a formatted date string.<br>96172 <b>   -   becomes   -   </b> ' . $functions -> time_to_string(96172));
echo(
'<br><br>');

echo(
'This is to convert a Timestanp to a formatted date string.<br>20040612173814 <b>   -   becomes   -   </b> ' . $functions -> FuzzyTime(20040612173814));
echo(
'<br>');
?>





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