Module: Automatic Time Zones

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

TTV — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:14:52 -0500

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Scott Finegan
In the automatic_timezones directory locate the info.txt file.
Open it with a programmers text editor (not MS Word).

Locate this line...
 require_version: 5.2
Add a period and a zero
 require_version: 5.2.0
You should be able to enable the module. (I did not test beyond this point.)

Thanks Scott!

I use linux myself so don't worry... Hahahahaha...

Tested and confirmed working!!! I tested it using a VPN to show me the different timezones, and everything seems to be working so thanks for the solution!

Cheers!

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Scott Finegan — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:41:47 -0500

In the automatic_timezones directory locate the info.txt file.
Open it with a programmers text editor (not MS Word).

Locate this line...

 require_version: 5.2

Add a period and a zero

 require_version: 5.2.0

You should be able to enable the module. (I did not test beyond this point.)

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

TTV — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:31:19 -0500

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Thomas Seifert
if you can't turn it on you are probably running a version of phorum older than the one expected.

Nope running the latest version of Phorum and it is impossible to turn on...

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Thomas Seifert — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:45:24 -0600

if you can't turn it on you are probably running a version of phorum older than the one expected.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

john62 — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:54:43 -0600

Is the older version of this module still available? As I am unable to turn the latest version on.

Thanks

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Toni — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:05:59 -0600

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dholeman
I just updated our site to v.6.0.2 and the module turned itself off and cannot be turned on. Reverting back to the previous version fixed this. Let me know if you want to follow this up and I'll forward the site specs and php config.

M2, I have the same problem, I removed, because there is now to (On) it, in Admin>Phorum Module Settings.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

dholeman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:57:00 -0500

I just updated our site to v.6.0.2 and the module turned itself off and cannot be turned on. Reverting back to the previous version fixed this. Let me know if you want to follow this up and I'll forward the site specs and php config.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:34:56 -0500

Thanks! That's the best kind of feedback ;)

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

tankslap — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:52:01 -0500

Hi Maurice,

Positive feedback. I've just checked the last 24 hours of server logs and no sign of the error message.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:40:56 -0500

That sounds reasonable.
I'll add it to the module distro too.
Thanks.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

tankslap — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:41:13 -0500

Hi Maurice,

I've just uploaded the new version to our server, I'll check the logs out tomorrow and see if the error has gone.

FYI: the admin page complains about the phorum version number, I added an extra .0 to the minimum version number in the info.txt and that seemed to make it happy.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

tankslap — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:57:57 -0500

Hi Maurice,

Thanks for you help, I've been away for the weekend so will upload the new version this evening and let you know if it fixes the problem.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:24:11 -0500

I think I found the problem. Please try version 6.0.2 of this module.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

tankslap — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:14:14 -0500

Hi Maurice,

While trying to track down a totally separate issue for one of our user I noticed lots errors in the web server log:

[Fri Jul 06 08:45:41 2012] [error] [client x.x.x.x] PHP Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /path/to/webroot/include/format_functions.php on line 248

A quick search on the forum indicated that others had seen this issue and it was related to this module, the main offender appears to be a google bot so I would like to see if we can fix this to ensure the site is being index properly. I'm running the latest version of phorum and this module, please let me know if there is any other information I can give you.

Thanks, Jon.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

dholeman — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:51:42 -0600

>> Update the require_version line to read 5.2.0 instead of 5.2.

Worked for me too. Somebody should probably edit the info.txt files in both the tar and zip.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

-AJ- — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:36:30 -0500

G'day Maurice / Joe,

Is it correct the Automatic timezone can't handle the extra half our offset we have in South Australia? We are on GMT +10:30 hours at the moment (GMT +9:30 hours + 1 hour DST = 10:30)

I have the same issue with the Time Zone Offset in the General settings, no half hour offset.

Anyway to workaround this?

Cheers,
AJ

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

tankslap — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:35:06 -0500

Just applied the change suggested to the info.txt and it works perfectly.

Thanks for the amazingly fast response :D

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:21:45 -0500

Right, that should not happen. Try editing the info.txt for the module. Update the require_version line to read 5.2.0 instead of 5.2. I guess that the version check does not like the missing last digit here.

I'll look into the version check code, to make sure that this doesn't happen for future Phorum versions. "5.2" should indicate "5.2.0 or higher" for sure.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

tankslap — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:17:58 -0500

Hi Maurice,

I've just downloaded and applied the update to this module and have a strange problem..

Minimum Phorum-Version requirement not met for module "automatic_timezones"
It requires at least version "5.2", but the current version is "5.2.14".
The module was disabled to avoid malfunction of your Phorum because of that requirement.

I know I am a little behind on phorum updates, but surely I shouldn't get this message ???

Thanks, Jon.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:03:37 -0500

I have published version 6.0.1. This version fixes a PHP warning:
Missing argument 1 for phorum_mod_automatic_timezones_addon()

The warning only results in a problem when PHP is configured to display warnings in the browser.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Giam Teck Choon — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:16:43 -0500

Thanks a lot ;)

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:49:08 -0500

I have published a full rewrite of this module (version 6.0.0).

This release improves the module by making use of new Phorum features and by keeping the local storage for caching offsets at a minimum level (put differently: when a cookie can be used, it will be used as the sole storage mechanism).

This release also fixes a few remaining bugs (also the bug reported by "choon" about the REMOTE_ADDR PHP warning when running script.php).

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Giam Teck Choon — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:36:26 -0500

Hi Joe,

Just a note. When execute ./script.php (Forum Subscriptions module from you I believe) which suppose to be execute via command/crontab, I will get the following:

PHP Notice:  Undefined index: REMOTE_ADDR in /path/to/phorum/mods/automatic_timezones/automatic_timezones.php on line 79

Since $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] is only available via serving via web server to web browsers, it isn't set in command line. In fact the $_SERVER global variable won't be set if I remember correctly. Is it possible for you to include a fix? Something from:
[code="php" number="78"]
//check if the time zone offset has been set by ip (only when cookies cannot be created)
if (isset($PHORUM["phorum_mod_automatic_timezones"]["offset_by_ip"][$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]]) &&
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_automatic_timezones"]["offset_by_ip"][$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]]["timestamp"] + 7200 > time())
$offset_by_ip = $PHORUM["phorum_mod_automatic_timezones"]["offset_by_ip"][$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]]["offset"];

[/code]
To:
[code="php" number="78"]
//check if the time zone offset has been set by ip (only when cookies cannot be created)
if (isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"])) {
if (isset($PHORUM["phorum_mod_automatic_timezones"]["offset_by_ip"][$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]]) &&
$PHORUM["phorum_mod_automatic_timezones"]["offset_by_ip"][$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]]["timestamp"] + 7200 > time())
$offset_by_ip = $PHORUM["phorum_mod_automatic_timezones"]["offset_by_ip"][$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]]["offset"];
}

[/code]
I hope you get what I mean ;)

If this is intended, please forgive my ignorant.

Thanks for your great modules.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Rob Granger — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:57:21 -0500

sorry, diffed the code, I see you are checking for an empty array now, sorry for the extra post.
love your mods, dude!

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Rob Granger — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:51:44 -0500

Joe, I am running 5.2.1.05. Did you patch the .php and keep the same version number?
Thanks
Rob

Automatic Time Zones (version 5.2.1.05)
This module automatically detects each visitor's time zone and adjusts the times shown in
your forum accordingly, whether they are logged in or unregistered.
Created by Joe Curia
More info: web site • README • Changelog

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Joe Curia — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:47:17 -0500

Rob and Phil,

Thanks for pointing out the various bugs which were causing those PHP notices. I have patched them and included the fixes in v5.2.1.05 of this module. Please redownload/install the module (the automatic_timezones.php file specifically) and the notices should go away.

PHP notice: Undefined index: user

Rob Granger — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:23:53 -0500

User info:

Anonymous user
User IP address = 24.128.76.5

Additional details:

Message:

PHP notice: Undefined index: user

PHP notice generated at /home/ppbb/public_html/phorum/mods/automatic_timezones/automatic_timezones.php:122

Back trace:

Function phorum_mod_automatic_timezones_user_get called
----
Function call_user_func_array called at
{path to Phorum}/common.php:1687
----
Function phorum_hook called at
{path to Phorum}/include/api/user.php:1038
----
seeing a lot of these in the event logger, is there a fix or a way to not log them if they are harmless?
Thanks
rob

Function phorum_api_user_get called at
{path to Phorum}/include/api/user.php:2442
----
Function phorum_api_user_session_restore called at
{path to Phorum}/common.php:590
----
Function require_once called at
{path to Phorum}/ajax.php:27
----

Request info:

HTTP_HOST = www.ppbb.com
HTTP_REFERER = [www.ppbb.com]
REQUEST_URI = /phorum/ajax.php

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Phil Connolly — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:49:54 -0600

Here is another undefined variable notice report: $query_string and $separator in automatic_timezones.php will be undefined if $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] is empty. I see it show up occasionally in the Event Logger report.

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

Phil Connolly — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:25:06 -0600

Hello,

In function phorum_mod_automatic_timezones_start_output() I inserted an isset() check on your 'offset_by_ip' index. No big deal but when I am debugging and I have php report notices and warnings, might as well eliminate these.

You'll see the spot in the code where I bracketed the inserted condition with
// Begin BosonHack
...
// End BosonHack

regards,
-phil.

EDIT: Your bugfix has been included in the latest release and your patch attachment deleted. Thanks for the fix. ~ Joe Curia

Re: Module: Automatic Time Zones

didi2 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:23:56 -0500

Cool. Works perfect! Thank you.