Last update for tonight: <a class='button' onclick='javascript:document.getElementById("the_id").rows+=10;'> Make Text Box Bigger </a> And similar for Make Text Boxes Smaller. It’s working on my comment box as we speak. Try it out. (Thanks to Dunstan).
Following on from the previous post, I’ve also shamelessly poached another idea from Dunstan: human-readable timestamps. Just pop this into your post.html file, where you want the ’time’ to appear.
{capture name=hour}{the_time d="G"}{/capture}
{assign var=hour value=$smarty.capture.hour}
Posted
{if $hour eq "00" or $hour eq "01" or $hour eq "02"}
in the wee hours,
{elseif $hour eq "03" or $hour eq "04" or $hour eq "05" or $hour eq "06"}
terribly early in the morning,
{elseif $hour eq "07" or $hour eq "08" or $hour eq "09"}
early in the morning,
{elseif $hour eq "10"}
mid-morning,
{elseif $hour eq "11"}
late morning,
{elseif $hour eq "12" or $hour eq "13"}
mid-morning,
{elseif $hour eq "14"}
early afternoon,
{elseif $hour eq "15" or $hour eq "16"}
mid-afternoon,
{elseif $hour eq "17"}
late afternoon,
{elseif $hour eq "18" or $hour eq "19"}
early evening,
{elseif $hour eq "20" or $hour eq "21"}
evening,
{elseif $hour eq "22"}
late evening,
{elseif $hour eq "23"}
late at night,
{/if}
I had noticed lots of blogs had a nice little Posted x hours, y minutes after the fact tag attached to Comments. I thought this was pretty cool, and had a very short attempt at this some time ago. Then, over on Binary Bonsai, Michael mentioned how the plugin was broken, and how it needs fixing. Well, I didn’t fix the PHP version, but I did write a pure Smarty version!
{*
"Time Since" Smarty Code
Author: Matt Schinckel <matt@schinckel.net>
http://schinckel.net
Based on a WordPress Plugin "Time Since"
http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/timesince
Notes: Insert this whole text where you want the
text to appear. If keen, you could move the first
pair of lines to a place outside of the comment loop,
but still inside the post. This might save some
precious server seconds.
The accuracy of the 'time since' decreases over time:
there aren't 30.4 days in every month, for instance.
*}
{capture name=post_time}{the_time d="U"}{/capture}
{assign var=post_time value=$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 $count2 != 1}s{/if} after the fact.
I recalled at some stage there was a Smarty Modifier called escape. I think it was when I was looking for one called rot13. Anyways, you can use this and the JavaScript function unescape() to obfuscate the email address. You’ll need this code early in your template: I stick it at the start just after <html>
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This fragment will insert the Gravatar Image:
{capture name=reader}{comment_author_email}{/capture}
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<div class="right">');
document.write('<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=');
document.write(hex_md5(unescape("{$smarty.capture.reader|escape:"hex"}")));
document.write('&size=40" alt="" />');
document.write('</div>');
</script>
This seems to more reliably display the Gravatars, so I’d suggest you use it instead. Either that, or Gravatar just fixed up their servers…
There’s a little one-liner I’ve just learned for showing or hiding the contents of a particular <div> tag. (May also work for other types of tag). The stuff you want to show or hide needs to have an id attribute. I use it to hide some stuff if there are no Comments or Trackbacks, since I’ve seperated them, and this was the best way to hide the title.
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Then, you can use this code to hide it (in an {if} block, for instance):
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And this to show it:
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I haven’t tried, but it’s also probably possible to have show/hide links:
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Of course, if you want to hide text in-place (without rearranging the flow of the remainder of the text), you’ll need:
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I wrote my own script to convert the selection (or whole front document) in Script Editor to XHTML. It uses the same CSS tags as Jonathon’s program, but does not add the style data in, unless a property is set. I’ve also got the Source Code for his program, so it will be interesting to see similarities.
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