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James

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General Discussion

- James@feel_sickened
James is now a friend with Trajan 4253 days ago
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James commented on the plugin Spam Login Filter 4253 days ago

What a great initiative :D :D :D
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James commented on the plugin Social Profile 4254 days ago

RJ - just a random suggestion - it doesn't look like you have stretched the centre column to occupy the rest of the available space. Would be genius and really useful if achieved. Cheers, J
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James commented on the plugin Event Manager 4299 days ago

Looks fantastic - WELL DONE! can't wait to test. Will let you know how I go! :D
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James replied on the discussion topic Time Created - getting basic date created detail 4351 days ago

Anyone know a way of comparing time_created values? Say for example I wanted to know/check if 1 object was a week older than another....? if ($object->time_created < $anotherobject->time_created - 7) { do something } ? view reply
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James replied on the discussion topic Time Created - getting basic date created detail 4351 days ago

Thanks Dhrup ( what about your clients ? ;P ;P ;P ) strftime("%B %Y",$object->time_created); worked for me.... view reply
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James added a new discussion topic Time Created - getting basic date created detail in the group Plugin Development 4352 days ago

Hi, In using $(an elgg object)->time_created or for better example, $object_created = date("G:H j/m-Y", $object->time_created) ; I get the time (at server side i believe coz it doesn't match my local time) and the day, month year the object...
- James@feel_sickened
  
  James 4351 days ago
  Anyone know a way of comparing time_created values?
  Say for example I wanted to know/check if 1 object was a week older than another....?
  if ($object->time_created < $anotherobject->time_created - 7) {
  do something }
  ?
- Team Webgalli@webgalli
  
  Team Webgalli 4351 days ago
  Just googgle for timestamp comparison
  About 11,100,000 results (0.16 seconds)
- Cash@costelloc
  
  Cash 4350 days ago
  The time is in seconds so you can't just subtract 7.
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James replied on the discussion topic Inclusion of start.php 4352 days ago

Hi I've realised one of my plugins has a mix (for a me, a confusing mix) of page calls - some using the page handler - some going straight to the /mod/ ...which doesn't look good in the browser. for... view reply
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James is now a friend with Tango 4359 days ago
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James replied on the discussion topic getting output from checkboxes 4361 days ago

Ha! Kev - you're a genius (AGAIN!) ...another array in a similar scenario worked fine because I was reseting it to blank by doing exactly that $string = array() ...Had I done the same thing with my $featurevalue it would have worked... view reply
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James replied on the discussion topic A user-centric question - adding a field to the profile ? 4363 days ago

@ Stuartsloan - I agree with you, and will play with the existing hook when I finish some other work. In the meantime there are hints and tid-bits all over the elgg community site that may point us in the right direction; ie... view reply
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James replied on the discussion topic getting output from checkboxes 4363 days ago

Hi Geniuses - back to this one again; for each individual post I can pull down the array of 'features' and present them as desired by doing this: $featurelisting = unserialize($compost->features); foreach ($featurelisting as $featureindiv)... view reply
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James replied on the discussion topic Creating a country, city search form 4363 days ago

Thanks Tango - This works and nicely ! You're a star. 2 questions - 1 - is it better, cleaner code to refer to an external .js script and not include header script in a php file? 2 - how from within this script can I get it to pull data from... view reply
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James replied on the discussion topic A user-centric question - adding a field to the profile ? 4364 days ago

@Stuartsloan - exactly! :-) @Tahoe & RJ - I gave up on profile manager when it didn't work with Kev's event calendar datepicker. But I believe that's been resolved. I'll have another look at it - and it might save me ALOT of time - but I have a... view reply
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James replied on the discussion topic A user-centric question - adding a field to the profile ? 4366 days ago

WOW! AMAZING DHRUP!.... ...anyway was busy looking at edit.php files and the like when the stock profile plugin has the defualt fields laid out and a plugin hook to work with them already in play in the start.php - JOY! ... view reply