How can I have the generated date of the post show as "early morning", "mid morning", "lunch time", "afternoon", "evening", "past your bedtime" and so forth?
I use php on my site so a php script would work awesome or anything for that matter.
Full Version: fuzzy time.
Sure, how about something like this:
This must be in a MTEntries container, and doesn't have any formatting, just the message right now.
Post back if you have questions - it worked on my test blog
Kristine
This must be in a MTEntries container, and doesn't have any formatting, just the message right now.
CODE
<?
//set the beginning time for each time section - keep the quotes in there
$earlymorn = strtotime("4:30am");
$midmorn = strtotime("9:00am");
$lunch = strtotime("11:30am");
$afternoon = strtotime("1:00pm");
$evening = strtotime("5:00pm");
$bedtime = strtotime("9:00pm");
$t = strtotime("<$MTEntryDate format="%X"$>");
//Modify the messages as necessary - note that the middle of the night one should be in there twice.
if ($t <= $earlymorn) { echo "Past Your Bedtime"; }
elseif ($t <= $midmorn) { echo "Early Morning"; }
elseif ($t <= $lunch) { echo "Mid-Morning"; }
elseif ($t <= $afternoon) { echo "Lunch time"; }
elseif ($t <= $evening) { echo "Afternoon"; }
elseif ($t <= $bedtime) { echo "Evening"; }
else echo "Past your bedtime";
?>
//set the beginning time for each time section - keep the quotes in there
$earlymorn = strtotime("4:30am");
$midmorn = strtotime("9:00am");
$lunch = strtotime("11:30am");
$afternoon = strtotime("1:00pm");
$evening = strtotime("5:00pm");
$bedtime = strtotime("9:00pm");
$t = strtotime("<$MTEntryDate format="%X"$>");
//Modify the messages as necessary - note that the middle of the night one should be in there twice.
if ($t <= $earlymorn) { echo "Past Your Bedtime"; }
elseif ($t <= $midmorn) { echo "Early Morning"; }
elseif ($t <= $lunch) { echo "Mid-Morning"; }
elseif ($t <= $afternoon) { echo "Lunch time"; }
elseif ($t <= $evening) { echo "Afternoon"; }
elseif ($t <= $bedtime) { echo "Evening"; }
else echo "Past your bedtime";
?>
Post back if you have questions - it worked on my test blog
Kristine
Darn you Kristine, you just beat me.
Here's my code:
Change the numbers as necessary.
I like Kristine's code better. Hmph!
Here's my code:
CODE
<?php
$postedHour = <$MTEntryDate format="%k"$>;
// between 4 AM and 7 AM
if (($postedHour >= 4) && ($postedHour <= 7)) print "in the early morning";
// between 8 (inclusive) and noon
if (($postedHour >= 8) && ($postedHour < 12)) print "in the morning";
// self-explanatory
if ($postedHour == 12) print "during the noonhour";
// between 12 and 5
if (($postedHour > 12) && ($postedHour < 17)) print "in the afternoon";
// between 5 and 9 inclusive
if (($postedHour >= 17) && ($postedHour <= 21)) print "in the evening";
// after 10 PM and before 4 AM exclusive
if (($postedHour > 21) || ($postedHour < 4)) print "past your bedtime";
?>
$postedHour = <$MTEntryDate format="%k"$>;
// between 4 AM and 7 AM
if (($postedHour >= 4) && ($postedHour <= 7)) print "in the early morning";
// between 8 (inclusive) and noon
if (($postedHour >= 8) && ($postedHour < 12)) print "in the morning";
// self-explanatory
if ($postedHour == 12) print "during the noonhour";
// between 12 and 5
if (($postedHour > 12) && ($postedHour < 17)) print "in the afternoon";
// between 5 and 9 inclusive
if (($postedHour >= 17) && ($postedHour <= 21)) print "in the evening";
// after 10 PM and before 4 AM exclusive
if (($postedHour > 21) || ($postedHour < 4)) print "past your bedtime";
?>
Change the numbers as necessary.
I like Kristine's code better. Hmph!
Oh, but thanks for posting yours, Richard - I didn't know how the syntax worked for when a value was between 2 numbers - so seeing your code was totally helpful to me!! Its so hard to search for those things sometimes!
So mine is a bit flawed because it makes you enter in the words for the bedtime twice -- mainly because I didn't know the syntax you used!!!
Kristine
So mine is a bit flawed because it makes you enter in the words for the bedtime twice -- mainly because I didn't know the syntax you used!!!
Kristine
Okay i went throught the code and cleaned it up, it's fixed now, thanks for all your wonderful help!!!
one last problem:
scroll to the bottom of my weblog, see where the date changes from NOV 11 to NOV 10 from 10 to 1 the images I have for the numbers are showing nothing. what am I doing wrong? I tried 09.gif and 9.gif and neither shows. is there something i'm missing?
one last problem:
scroll to the bottom of my weblog, see where the date changes from NOV 11 to NOV 10 from 10 to 1 the images I have for the numbers are showing nothing. what am I doing wrong? I tried 09.gif and 9.gif and neither shows. is there something i'm missing?
nevermind i figured it out, since i didn't make an entry on the 9th duh. for single digit numbers you have to have a 09.gif when i tried that obviously nothing changed because the entry that i thought was the 9th was actually the 8th so i need 08.gif and the rest of them .
Thanks again for all the wonderful help!
Thanks again for all the wonderful help!
i like this code...just one question...and don't snicker too much, im new...where do i PUT the code?
thanks
Ruth
thanks
Ruth
Wherever you want the date info to appear - usually in your Main Index template, somewhere inside the MTEntries container
Hope that helps,
Kristine
Hope that helps,
Kristine
I'm using Ms Kristine's code, and just replaced the bit in the "posted" portion of my main index and individual entry templates, and it works most excellently! I added the <MTEntryDate> tag to the title attribute for the permalink which wraps around it, as below!
CODE
<div class="posted">
Posted by <$MTEntryAuthor$>, <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="link to the post made at <MTEntryDate format="%X">">
<?
//set the beginning time for each time section - keep the quotes in there
$earlymorn = strtotime("3:30am");
$midmorn = strtotime("6:00am");
$lunch = strtotime("11:30am");
$afternoon = strtotime("1:00pm");
$evening = strtotime("5:00pm");
$bedtime = strtotime("11:00pm");
//This date format is for MT2.5 and above
$t = strtotime("<$MTEntryDate format="%X"$>");
//Modify the messages as necessary - note that the middle of the night one should be in there twice.
if ($t <= $earlymorn) { echo "while sleeping"; }
elseif ($t <= $midmorn) { echo "far too early"; }
elseif ($t <= $lunch) { echo "in the morning"; }
elseif ($t <= $afternoon) { echo "midday"; }
elseif ($t <= $evening) { echo "in the afternoon"; }
elseif ($t <= $bedtime) { echo "at night"; }
else echo "while sleeping";
?>
</a>, in <MTEntryCategories glue="& ">
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>" title="go to the category"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
</MTEntryCategories>t$>)</a></div>
Posted by <$MTEntryAuthor$>, <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="link to the post made at <MTEntryDate format="%X">">
<?
//set the beginning time for each time section - keep the quotes in there
$earlymorn = strtotime("3:30am");
$midmorn = strtotime("6:00am");
$lunch = strtotime("11:30am");
$afternoon = strtotime("1:00pm");
$evening = strtotime("5:00pm");
$bedtime = strtotime("11:00pm");
//This date format is for MT2.5 and above
$t = strtotime("<$MTEntryDate format="%X"$>");
//Modify the messages as necessary - note that the middle of the night one should be in there twice.
if ($t <= $earlymorn) { echo "while sleeping"; }
elseif ($t <= $midmorn) { echo "far too early"; }
elseif ($t <= $lunch) { echo "in the morning"; }
elseif ($t <= $afternoon) { echo "midday"; }
elseif ($t <= $evening) { echo "in the afternoon"; }
elseif ($t <= $bedtime) { echo "at night"; }
else echo "while sleeping";
?>
</a>, in <MTEntryCategories glue="& ">
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>" title="go to the category"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
</MTEntryCategories>t$>)</a></div>
For those who aren't PHP enabled, but who could use something like Brad Choate's MT-Macros plugin, there's another way...
You'd define a bunch of macros thusly
Then in your body, you'd use
MT will make the 'date' ::03:: for this post, and the macro will change it to 'Matins'.
Notes: Obviously it needs to be extended through the rest of Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. Also someone with a better grasp of regular expressions than I have could easily make it so that the entries don't triple up...
You'd define a bunch of macros thusly
CODE
<MTMacroDefine name="matins1" string="::00::">
Matins
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="matins2" string="::01::">
Matins
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="matins3" string="::02::">
Matins
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Lauds1" string="::03::">
Lauds
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Lauds2" string="::04::">
Lauds
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Lauds3" string="::05::">
Lauds
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Prime1" string="::06::">
Prime
</MTMacroDefine>
Matins
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="matins2" string="::01::">
Matins
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="matins3" string="::02::">
Matins
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Lauds1" string="::03::">
Lauds
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Lauds2" string="::04::">
Lauds
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Lauds3" string="::05::">
Lauds
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="Prime1" string="::06::">
Prime
</MTMacroDefine>
Then in your body, you'd use
CODE
<MTMacroApply>::<$MTEntryDate format="%H"$>::</MTMacroApply>
MT will make the 'date' ::03:: for this post, and the macro will change it to 'Matins'.
Notes: Obviously it needs to be extended through the rest of Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. Also someone with a better grasp of regular expressions than I have could easily make it so that the entries don't triple up...
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