How do I get the client time?

[quetz67]

Or isnt that possible in PHP?

[bastien]

as php is serverside code

[xentrix]

You need to use some JavaScript code. Something like this:

<script language="JavaScript">
  <!--
    today = new Date ();
    document.write (today);
  //-->
</script>

[quetz67]

xentrix, thanks, but that is actually my problem. I want to do a re-login when a button is pressed. Then I want to compare the time the button is pressed with the current time (php-time).

But I didnt find a way to evaluate the time when the button iis pressed and reload the page with that time.

see:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10209092

for my original question

[thom]

Well, if you are checking this after submitting a form, the following might work:

<form >
<!-- form stuff -->
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
today = new Date ();
document.write ('<input type="hidden" name="client_date" value="' + today + '" />');
//-->
</script>

</form>

I'm a shitty JavaScript programmer and this code most probably doesn't work 🙂 But I hope you get the concept; Posting javascript varables via form and grabbing them with PHP on the 'other side'

regards,
thom

[Bunkermaster]

you're off for trouble (time zones, winter/summer time etc.). If you go for the javascript solution try to get a timestamp and not a date that you will have to parse for hours...

look into this :
<script language=jscript>
<!--
d = new Date();
t = d.getTime();
-->
</script>

t is a timestamp