Is this possible? Show - NEW if by date / time under 24hrs

Hi,

On my home page i have the latest 5 listings displayed, what i wondered is if a listing is under say 24hrs it could display 'New' and if over 24 hours the 'New' is not displayed? Here is some of the code i'm using -

    <?php
    $images=explode(",",$listing["images"]);
    if($listing["images"]!=""&&file_exists("thumbnails/".$images[0].".jpg"))
    {
        $images = explode(",",$listing["images"]);
       
        echo "<a href=\"".$strLink."\"><img align=\"left\" src=\"thumbnails/".$images[0].".jpg\" width=\"50\" alt=\"".stripslashes(strip_tags($listing["title"]))."\" class=\"img-shadow img-right-margin\" /></a>";
    }
    ?>
   
    <h4 class="no-top-margin"><a href="<?php echo $strLink;?>">
        <?php echo stripslashes(strip_tags($listing["title"]));?>
    </a></h4>
    <span class="sub-text">
    <?php echo $this->text_words(stripslashes(strip_tags($listing["description"])),10);?>
    </span>
   
    <div class="clear"></div>
   
    <div class="smooth-separator margin_10"></div>
<?php
}
?>
<?php
if(!isset($_REQUEST["mod"])&&(!isset($_REQUEST["page"])||(isset($_REQUEST["page"])&&$_REQUEST["page"]=="en_Home"))&&$this->db->num_rows($SearchTable)>0)
{
?>
    <div class="text-center">
        <a class="underline-link" href="<?php echo $this->mod_link("latest_listings");?>"><?php echo $M_SEE_MORE;?></a>
    </div>
<?php
}
?>

Code (markup):

Best Regards
J

 

Hi SarahK,

I done a test listing and it's not showing as 'New', Looking at the DB listing_date (if this makes any difference) for some reason uses 10 digits that don't even make sense as regards to say - day, month, year & time.

Best Regards

 

Hi Sarahk,

Still not showing, I've had a look around the code and in another file it displays the listing time and uses this code.

<?php echo time_since($listing["date"])." ".$M_AGO;?>

Code (markup):

Not sure if this helps in anyway.

Best Regards

 

I think your database stores a unix timestamp for date. A 10 digit number, something like: 1584515485

To display "New Listing", modify your code like this:

<h4 class="no-top-margin"><a href="<?php echo $strLink;?>">
<?php echo stripslashes(strip_tags($listing["title"]));?>
</a>
<?php
if( isset($listing['date']) &&
(time()-$listing['date'])<(3600*24*1)
){ echo "New Listing"; }
?>
</h4>

 

Hi JEET,

Just had to change a little bit of your code and it works. Had to edit it to 24 hrs in seconds.

Many thanks to you and sarahk.

 

Sadly though, whilst @JEET has the right answer for the date, as @sarahk said it's a wreck.

1) Stop opening/closing PHP willy-nilly, you're just making yourself work harder by having less clear code.

2) Stop using double quotes for your strings, you're just making yourself work harder by having to escape doubles or use the "wrong" quotes client-side.

3) Stop using multiple echo to do one echo's job.

4) this is 2020 not 1997, stop using presentational classes like "no-top-border"., it defeats the point of CSS' existence at which point you might as well go back to writing HTML 3.2.

5) Are you REALLY sure this is down to H4 depth structurally? Much less what is the H4 a heading OF?

6) This is 2020 not 2003, what's with nonsense like the clearing DIV and separator DIV? Generally those are an indication that whoever's writing the HTML shouldn't be.

7) Don't use string addition on echo when you don't have to. It slows things down and uses more memory than comma delimited output.

8) Not sure what "$this->text_words" does, but the garbage being thrown into that function -- and possibly the function itself -- is, well... garbage. It's called htmlspecialchars, use it.

If this is representative of the code driving the site, both front and back end need to be pitched in the trash and started over from scratch.

 

@deathshadow

I'm not a coder, i only understand a limited amount of code that's why i come here to ask for help, if i had the money i would love to get a coder to write it from scratch so all i can do is 'make do' with what i have i'm afraid but thank you for your insights.

Best Regards

 

No problem, happy to help