Display 'days until' comments are closed?

this is the section from /wp-includes/comment.php:

https://pastebin.com/XTTnhznk

there should be enough info to code what you want.

Hi alchymyth,

Thank you very much for that link!
I have had a look at that code, and I have come up with the following. It is ugly code, but it seems to do the job for now. Would like to streamline it though…

If anyone is interested:

<?php
$days_old = (int) get_option('close_comments_days_old');
$days_left = ((time() - strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt )) - ( $days_old * 24 * 60 * 60 ));
$days_until = $days_left / 24 / 60 / 60;
echo "<span class='notify'>Active ".round($days_until)." days remaining.</span>";
?>

Note: This calculation returns a negative number. I am not sure how to remove the – from the output.

Note: This calculation returns a negative number. I am not sure how to remove the – from the output.

turn this line around; i.e.

$days_left = (( $days_old * 24 * 60 * 60 ) - (time() - strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt )) );

to stop the output after the comments are closed, you possibly need to make the output conditional on a positive number of days remaining (untested if the last day is displayed properly):

if(round($days_until) > 0 ) { echo "<span class='notify'>Active ".round($days_until)." ".((days remaining.</span>"; }

So if i use this this thing is resolved!?

Aha! Alchymyth! Great stuff! Thank you!

That worked really well! I added an else statement to add a message once comments are closed.

One thing to note, using $posts[0] set all the posts’ “days until” to the same value, so I updated it to $post. (in the loop on an archive page)

See below for current code:

<?php
$days_old = (int) get_option('close_comments_days_old');
$days_left = (( $days_old * 24 * 60 * 60 ) - (time() - strtotime( $post->post_date_gmt )) );
$days_until = $days_left / 24 / 60 / 60;

if(round($days_until) > 0 )
{echo "<span class='notify'>Active ".round($days_until)." days remaining.</span>";}
else {echo "<span class='attention'>Sorry, but comments on this post are now closed.</span>";}
?>

@aerconditionatshop

can you give more details what your question is about?

or start your own topic if your question is not related to showing comment time left.