While I don't intend, at least yet, to make dailytwitter -completely- customizable, it might be nice to at least have some options depending on your preferences. Looking at what LoudTwitter offers might be a good start.

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domesticat commented

I've been running a homegrown script that does a limited subset of the functionality you're considering, and one thing I've had (and liked) was the ability to customize how the time for each tweet was displayed.

jadestorm’s picture

jadestorm commented

That's a good idea, I'll definitely make sure the time format can be adjusted. What kind of options do you think would be good for the time format?

domesticat’s picture

domesticat commented

While I have specific preferences for my personal use, it seems like there's a better option: letting the user decide. I can think of two ways to do this:

1) making the output a themable function, so the user can customize the output or
2) providing a form field on the settings (?) page for this module allowing the user to put in a PHP formatting string, like "h:i a"?

Almost every culture has a slightly different convention on how to write out times, and either of those options will let the user decide.

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jadestorm commented

Hrm. I'm not yet very up on integrating themeing, but #2 sounds like a good idea. I'm thinking something along the lines of some "standard" types with a "custom" field that you can make use of. Something that shows something like:
23:59
11:59 pm
Custom

And custom makes a box appear that lets you enter whatever you want. What do you think?

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jadestorm commented
Version: » 6.x-1.0

Wait a minute -- when you talk about themeing you aren't talking about me providing some box that's like

%h:%s %m-%y or something like that are you -- you are talking about providing a simple hook into the theming engine so someone writing their own theme can adjust the way daily twitter's output looks

am i correct?

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jadestorm commented

(and if i have your attention, do you know how to revoke a release? i can't figure out how)

domesticat’s picture

domesticat commented

Yep, I'm looking for a function the end user can override.

Don't know how to revoke a release, though...

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jadestorm commented

Oh oh, so you -are- looking for end user, not the person who is able to edit the actual theme. Ok, let me think about that. I'm a little lukewarm on making it something as free form as %s %m:%s %y:%M:%d but maybe that's not as bad as I'm thinking it would be. Do you ahve any thoughts on how this customization functionality should look to the end user?

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tomotomo commented

For customizing time format, I suggest we just support /admin/settings/date-time/formats.

In Drupal 7 we could implement hook_date_format_types() to add our own format then call format_date with it. In D6 we could just check variable_get for date_format_time (I made that up) or date_format_dailytwitter set to "h:i a" as default. Users can define a date-time format which would be used if found.