| Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34684] |
Tue, 14 November 2006 17:30  |
appscontent
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I've successfully converted an old archive of email messages into an .elm format. Using maillist.php, these messages import without any issues.
However, the posting date in the forum message displays today's date and not the original creation date. I am using FUDforum 2.7.6.
One of the import file messages contains the following header information
From: "John Does" <jdoe(at)someplace(dot)com> -->
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:17:43 +0000 -->
Subject: Training Admin Questions -->
This same import message file has columns with the following attribution:
Created: 03/26/2006 2:17:43 PM
Modified: 03/26/2006 2:17:43 PM
Accessed: 03/26/2006 2:17:43 PM
Can I get the posted message to reflect the original creation date?
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| Re: Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34699 is a reply to message #34684] |
Wed, 15 November 2006 02:46  |
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The import script tries to use the date from the message itself, only if it fails to find the Date header or if the date is in the future will it use the current date.
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| Re: Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34702 is a reply to message #34699] |
Wed, 15 November 2006 13:28 |
appscontent
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So ... my message header is in the format of
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:17:43 +0000 -->
and the posting has today's date. Does this mean it is interpreting this date format as a future date? If so, how do I correct?
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| Re: Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34711 is a reply to message #34702] |
Wed, 15 November 2006 17:15 |
Ilia
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The date formats are parsed using the PHP's strtotime() function, which takes a string and converts it into a unix timestamp. This is the value the maillist.php script is using.
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| Re: Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34717 is a reply to message #34684] |
Wed, 15 November 2006 17:45 |
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Then I would expect to see a posting date of 26 Mar 2001 (from the header) instead of today's date. I understand what you are saying, but it still does not explain the behavior I am seeing.
I guess I will have to live with this. Thanks for your replies ... I appreciate the help.
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| Re: Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34727 is a reply to message #34717] |
Thu, 16 November 2006 15:24 |
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Which version of PHP are you using? Try and see if PHP can parse the specified date, you can do so via this simple code.
<?php
var_dump(date("r", strtotime("Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:17:43 +0000")));
?>
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| Re: Posting Date and maillist.php [message #34758 is a reply to message #34744] |
Fri, 17 November 2006 00:11 |
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You can try adding a bit of debug code to the maillist.php script and make the code output the value of the post_stamp property of the fud_msg object, it should contain the date & time of the message in the unix timestamp format.
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