Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I had noticed lots of blogs had a nice little Posted x hours, y minutes after the fact tag attached to Comments. I thought this was pretty cool, and had a very short attempt at this some time ago.

Then, over on Binary Bonsai, Michael mentioned how the plugin was broken, and how it needs fixing.

Well, I didn’t fix the PHP version, but I did write a pure Smarty version!

{* 

"Time Since" Smarty Code 

Author: Matt Schinckel <matt@schinckel.net>
    http://schinckel.net

Based on a WordPress Plugin "Time Since"
    http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/timesince

Notes: Insert this whole text where you want the
text to appear.  If keen, you could move the first
pair of lines to a place outside of the comment loop,
but still inside the post.  This might save some
precious server seconds.

The accuracy of the 'time since' decreases over time:
there aren't 30.4 days in every month, for instance.

*}

{capture name=post_time}{the_time d="U"}{/capture}
{assign var=post_time value=$smarty.capture.post_time}

{capture name=comment_time}{comment_date d='U'}{/capture}
{assign var=comment_time value=$smarty.capture.comment_time}

{assign var=since value=$comment_time-$post_time}

{if $since < 3600}
    {assign var=name1 value="minute"}{assign var=sec1 value=60}
    {assign var=name2 value="second"}{assign var=sec2 value=1}
{elseif $since < 86400}
    {assign var=name1 value="hour"}{assign var=sec1 value=3600}
    {assign var=name2 value="minute"}{assign var=sec2 value=60}
{elseif $since < 604800}
    {assign var=name1 value="day"}{assign var=sec1 value=86400}
    {assign var=name2 value="hour"}{assign var=sec2 value=3600}
{elseif $since < 2626560}
    {assign var=name1 value="week"}{assign var=sec1 value=604800}
    {assign var=name2 value="day"}{assign var=sec2 value=86400}
{elseif $since < 31536000}
    {assign var=name1 value="month"}{assign var=sec1 value=2626560}
    {assign var=name2 value="week"}{assign var=sec2 value=604800}
{else}
    {assign var=name1 value="year"}{assign var=sec1 value=31536000}
    {assign var=name2 value="month"}{assign var=sec2 value=2626560}
{/if}
{math equation='floor(a/b)' a=$since b=$sec1 assign=count1}
{math equation='floor((a-floor(a/b)*b)/c) a=$since b=$sec1 c=$sec2 assign=count2}
Posted {$count1} {$name1}{if $count1 != 1}s{/if},
       {$count2} {$name2}{if $count2 != 1}s{/if} after the fact.

 

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