time of day hack for b2evolution

I stumbled upon a hack for wordpress that replaces the actual post time with a ‘time of day’ verbiage and ported it over to b2evolution. The modification is rather easy.

First place this function in your conf/_hacks.php:

< ?php
// inputs must be unix timestamp (seconds)
function time_of_day($pdate){
global $DB, $tableposts;
$hour=date('H',$pdate);
switch($hour)
{
case 0:
case 1:
case 2:
$tod = 'the wee hours';
break;
case 3:
case 4:
case 5:
case 6:
$tod = 'terribly early in the morning';
break;
case 7:
case 8:
case 9:
$tod = 'early morning';
break;
case 10:
$tod = 'mid-morning';
break;
case 11:
$tod = 'late morning';
break;
case 12:
case 13:
$tod = 'lunch time';
break;
case 14:
$tod = 'early afternoon';
break;
case 15:
case 16:
$tod = 'mid-afternoon';
break;
case 17:
$tod = 'late afternoon';
break;
case 18:
case 19:
$tod = 'early evening';
break;
case 20:
case 21:
$tod = 'evening time';
break;
case 22:
$tod = 'late evening';
break;
case 23:
$tod = 'late at night';
break;
default:
$tod = '';
break;
}
//return $tod;
echo $tod;
}?>

Then in your skin’s _main.php file, replace your post time section with this:

< ?php time_of_day(abs(strtotime($Item-&gt;issue_date))); ?>

You can add some css to display this image right before the time: clock image.

Preview here: http://brotherson.com/index.php?skin=simple