Out of Office widget – expiry

All functions fine when I test. It could be an issue with your server and WordPress timezone settings. Try playing with that. When I set the Out of Office expiry date to today (logged in as an Admin, editing a Your Profile user), the widget dissappears and the pull down setting of “Out of Office?” is reset to No when the profile is saved/updated.

Here is the function that deals with this. You may want to try uncommenting the timezone related options and see if that helps your issue. Just be sure to set your timezone in your Settings/General area I believe.

function outofoffice_check() {

global $in_out, $officeexpire, $current_user;
//$gofs = get_option( 'gmt_offset' ); // get WordPress offset in hours
//$tz = date_default_timezone_get(); // get current PHP timezone
//date_default_timezone_set('Etc/GMT'.(($gofs < 0)?'+':'').-$gofs);
// set the PHP timezone to match WordPress
	$right_now=time();
	  foreach ($authors9 as $key =>$author9 ) {

	 $in_out=  get_the_author_meta( 'si_office_status', $author9, true) ;
	 $officeexpire= get_the_author_meta( 'officeexpire_unix', $author9 ) ;
	 $set_expiry= esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'expiry', $author9 ) ); 	

	 if($set_expiry=="Yes"){
	 if($officeexpire<=$right_now ){
	 $in_out='false';
	 update_user_meta($author9, 'si_office_status','false');
	 }
	 if($officeexpire>=$right_now ){
	 $in_out='true';
	 update_user_meta($author9, 'si_office_status','true');
	  }
	  }
	  }
//  date_default_timezone_set($tz); // set the PHP timezone back the way it was
}

Ah yes… I’ll recheck this. There is a php cron function to check this function regularly that some servers may not support (or old PHP versions)… I’ll recheck this to see if it is working for me, but what PHP version are you using so that I can be sure that is not the issue? 5.3 and better is ideal.

OK, just issued a version 2.8 which fixes a wrongly reference function and uses WP’s current_time() function instead of PHP time() function which now adjusts for timezones set in WP.

Huh…. worked in my tests… I’ll see what else it could be… possibly still a timezone issue, or some PHP installs may not support the chron process.