[RD] Last Post Cell Text Re-arangement

[NetMaster]

ukskc.proboards.com/index.cgi

They want the last post cell to read:

Last post by Admin
on February 2, 2012, 2:24pm


I know how to target the cell and grab the innerHTML but I'm not sure how to break it up and re-arrange it. I would try to write it myself but the site is on a deadline.

[Wormopolis]

they dont want the thread title in there anymore?

[NetMaster]

Nope that wasn't in the picture they made

[Wormopolis]

I always find it funny when sites say they are "on a deadline". what exactly happens if they open 1 day late after the deadline?


if you can get the innerHTML, then use the split command to break it into the 3 lines.

lpstuff=td[x].innerHTML.split(/<br\/?>/i)

lpstuff[0] would have the when
lpstuff[1] would have the who
lpstuff[2] would have the what

[NetMaster]

Aha, thank you Wormo. Let me test it out.

Yep got it. (Was even able to further split the date apart using a comma as the deliminator.)

Small kink.

When I break up the date to leave out the time. If the newest post was made Today. Then there are no comma's and it returns undefined. So how can I fix it. Use an if / else statement to search for innerHTML.match(/Today/) ?

Yep that fixed it. Thanks Wormo.

[Wormopolis]

use a match statement to first look for "today", then check for "yesterday", THEN you can split by the comma

[NetMaster]

Was wondering about the yesterday thing. Was trying to find a post made yesterday but no forum had one.

Now it is done.

<script type="text/javascript">
//<!--
//Merge Posts/Thread Cells
//by NetMaster

var statcells = document.getElementsByTagName('td');

for(i=0;i<statcells.length;i++){
if(statcells[i].className=='windowbg2' && statcells[i].width=='66%'){
if(pb_action=='home'){
var tthreads = statcells[i+1].innerHTML;
var tposts = statcells[i+2].innerHTML;
statcells[i].width='50%';
statcells[i+2].style.display='none';
statcells[i+1].width='100px';
statcells[i+1].innerHTML='Posts: '+ tposts + '<br/>Threads: ' + tthreads;
lpstuff=statcells[i+3].innerHTML.split(/<br\/?>/i);
var date = lpstuff[0].split(/\,/i);
var who = lpstuff[1];
var day = date[0];
var year = date[1];
if(statcells[i+3].innerHTML.match(/Today/)){
statcells[i+3].innerHTML='Last Post ' + who + '<br/>' + day;
}
else if(statcells[i+3].innerHTML.match(/Yesterday/)){
statcells[i+3].innerHTML='Last Post ' + who + '<br/>' + day;
}
else{
statcells[i+3].innerHTML='Last Post  ' + who + '<br/>' + day + ', ' + year;
}
}
}
}
//-->
</script>

[Wormopolis]

that doesnt give an error on var year = date[1] ?

if date cant be split by "," then date[1] wont exist. I guess maybe it would return an undefined...

[NetMaster]

It works (no undefined) ukskc.proboards.com/index.cgi
According to W3 Schools if the deliminator cannot be found it will return the whole string. But just so I'm not relying on a browser catch:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<!--
//Merge Posts/Thread Cells
//by NetMaster

var statcells = document.getElementsByTagName('td');

for(i=0;i<statcells.length;i++){
if(statcells[i].className=='windowbg2' && statcells[i].width=='66%'){
if(pb_action=='home'){
var tthreads = statcells[i+1].innerHTML;
var tposts = statcells[i+2].innerHTML;
statcells[i].width='50%';
statcells[i+2].style.display='none';
statcells[i+1].width='100px';
statcells[i+1].innerHTML='Posts: '+ tposts + '<br/>Threads: ' + tthreads;
lpstuff=statcells[i+3].innerHTML.split(/<br\/?>/i);
var exdate = lpstuff[0];
var date = lpstuff[0].split(/\,/i);
var who = lpstuff[1];
var day = date[0];
var year = date[1];
if(statcells[i+3].innerHTML.match(/Today/)){
statcells[i+3].innerHTML='Last Post ' + who + '<br/>' + exdate;
}
else if(statcells[i+3].innerHTML.match(/Yesterday/)){
statcells[i+3].innerHTML='Last Post ' + who + '<br/>' + exdate;
}
else{
statcells[i+3].innerHTML='Last Post  ' + who + '<br/>' + day + ', ' + year;
}
}
}
}
//-->
</script>

[Wormopolis]

Excellent work!