Fix vbShout Timezone problem

Fix vbShout Timezone problem

Mod Version: 1.00, by newhere

This modification is in the archives.

vB Version: 3.6.5	Rating: (3 votes - 5.00 average)	Installs: 13
Released: 10 Apr 2007	Last Update: Never	Downloads: 11
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This vbShout plugin: http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/ajax-flatfile-vbshout-2-1-a-4536/

Has a serious bug with Time Zone changing to that of the last person to post in the shout box.

Here is a fix so that each user will see the time in their local timezone correctly.

1. Open template forumhome_vbshout_shout
Find this (should be at the very beginning):

Code:

<tr>

After it add:

Code:

                                <td nowrap align="left" valign="top">
                                <font size="1">
                                    <date>{$Shout['time']}</date>
                                </font>
                                </td>

Make sure that the "date" and "/date" tags are on the same line, and with no spaces between them and the $Shout variable, just as above. These are not valid html tags, and we are going to write code to replace them ourselves.

2. Open template forumhome_vbshout
Find:

Code:

Shouts.innerHTML = '<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="3" border="0" width="95%" align="left">' + ShoutRequest.handler.responseText + '</table>'

Replace it with:

Code:

                        var formatMe = ShoutRequest.handler.responseText
			formatMe = replaceDates(formatMe);
                        Shouts.innerHTML = '<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="left">' + formatMe + '</table>'

In the same template
Find this:

Code:

function sb_CollectHV(sbForm)

Before it add:

Code:

// replaces <date> tags
function replaceDates(s) {
            var ret = "";
            var matches = s.match(/<date>\d+<\/date>/g);
            for(var i = 0; matches != null && i < matches.length; i++) {
                var utc = matches[i].match(/\d+/);
                var date = new Date(utc * 1000);
                ret = ret + s.substr(0, s.indexOf(matches[i]));
                ret = ret + (date.getMonth()+1) + "/" +
                            date.getDate() + "/" +
                            date.getFullYear() + " " +
                            date.getHours() + ":" +
                            ((date.getMinutes() < 10) ? "0" : "") +
                            date.getMinutes() + ":" +
                            ((date.getSeconds() < 10) ? "0" : "") +
                            date.getSeconds() + " ";
                s = s.substr(s.indexOf(matches[i]) + matches[i].length);
            }
            ret = ret + s;
            return ret;
}

3. Open file vbshout.php
FInd this (There are similar code blocks, this should be in the function rewrite_shoutbox_flatfile() around line 226):

Code:

        $Shout['time']     = buildTime($Shout['s_time']);
        $Shout['s_shout']  = bbcodeparser($Shout['s_shout']);
        $Shout['style']    = '';
        $Shout['data']     = unserialize($Shout['s_data']);
        $Shout['username'] = fetch_musername($Shout, 'usergroupid');
        if (preg_match("#(\#)?0099FF#i", $Shout['data']['color']) && $Shout['s_by'] != 1)
        {
            $Shout['data']['color'] = '';
        }

Replace it with:

Code:

        // $Shout['time']     = buildTime($Shout['s_time']);
        $Shout['time']     = $Shout['s_time'];
        $Shout['s_shout']  = bbcodeparser($Shout['s_shout']);
        $Shout['style']    = '';
        $Shout['data']     = unserialize($Shout['s_data']);
        $Shout['username'] = fetch_musername($Shout, 'usergroupid');
        if (preg_match("#(\#)?0099FF#i", $Shout['data']['color']) && $Shout['s_by'] != 1)
        {
            $Shout['data']['color'] = '';
        }

This should now pass the date as UTC and JavaScript will convert it on the client side to the appropriate date.

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