[@undyingearth Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

Ugh… the formatting went a bit crazy and deleted some of my response.

Ignore the above. Basically, I wanted to say that I could achieve the effect I wanted by deleting some code from the core plugin, but I had problems when trying to do the same thing in my child theme functions.php.

Here is the code I added to my functions.php

http://pastebin.com/PNty9aPq

It almost works – but it returns a freshness value that is wrong by several years (!)

Any ideas?

J.S.

[@undyingearth Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve almost got this working, but my PHP-fu skills are not quite strong enough. @johnjamesjacoby and @thesnowjunkies pointed me in the right direction, but I feel like I must be making a basic mistake in the implementation.

I found the function bbp_get_time_since in /plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php

I managed to achieve the desired effect by deleting the following:

`
// Step two: the second chunk
if ( $i + 2 $since ) {
$output = $unknown_text;

// We only want to output two chunks of time here, eg:
// x years, xx months
// x days, xx hours
// so there’s only two bits of calculation below:
} else {

// Step one: the first chunk
for ( $i = 0, $j = count( $chunks ); $i < $j; ++$i ) {
$seconds = $chunks[$i][0];

// Finding the biggest chunk (if the chunk fits, break)
$count = floor( $since / $seconds );
if ( 0 != $count ) {
break;
}
}

// If $i iterates all the way to $j, then the event happened 0 seconds ago
if ( !isset( $chunks[$i] ) ) {
$output = $right_now_text;

} else {

// Set output var
$output = ( 1 == $count ) ? '1 '. $chunks[$i][1] : $count . ' ' . $chunks[$i][2];

// Step two: the second chunk
if ( $i + 2 < $j ) {
$seconds2 = $chunks[$i + 1][0];
$name2 = $chunks[$i + 1][1];
$count2 = floor( ( $since – ( $seconds * $count ) ) / $seconds2 );

// Add to output var
if ( 0 != $count2 ) {
$output .= ( 1 == $count2 ) ? _x( ',', 'Separator in time since', 'bbpress' ) . ' 1 '. $name2 : _x( ',', 'Separator in time since', 'bbpress' ) . ' ' . $count2 . ' ' . $chunks[$i + 1][2];
}
}

// No output, so happened right now
if ( ! (int) trim( $output ) ) {
$output = $right_now_text;
}
}
}

// Append 'ago' to the end of time-since if not 'right now'
if ( $output != $right_now_text ) {
$output = sprintf( $ago_text, $output );
}

return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_time_short', $output, $older_date, $newer_date );
}

`

This almost works. It cuts off the extra chunk. The problem is, it also returns a freshness value that is several years off. Instead of saying "10 minutes ago", it gives me "12 years ago"!

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I can achieve what I want by editing the core plugin, but I'd really like to update-proof this.

Thanks!

J.S.