Dates and Times

Anon

I am creating a script which needs to make certain data at certain times.

Currently, you can select that every X seconds it will happen. By working

lastreset + resetsec < time()

I also want to make it possible to select a time.

Such as 12:00am every day it will happen. It needs to be done using unixtime. I would like to be able to somehow to connect it into what I am currently doing. Currently it uses the time() data obviously to work it out.

I know I could do it by working out the seconds in a day then running it like that. But to happen at certain exact times i cannot figure out how.

Anon

well this has worked for me.

$time = (time() - $xseonds) * 86400;

if ($time >= 1) {

do code here

}

This is a basic way to run something once a day. This will only run as you can guess if the script is run.. unless you use a cron job.

Anon

I know, I am currently using that.

But, for example: If a person wants it to run at 12am every day, how can i make lastreset have the time of the next 12am, later in the day? By setting the time.

Anon

You need to use a cron job.

Anon

Thats not what I am talking about 😛

I want to now how I can create a time() query of a certain time. So somehow use something like mktime() to create a certain date or time.

Anon

I did some more research.

I got to:

mktime (00,25,0,5,5,2002);

I am presuming that I would need to ask users to fill out what year, hour etc and it would work off that...

So i think I have got it for now.