JavaScript & PHP

[maskme]

Dear All

First I'm trying to get the Client Date & Time using JavaScript.
After that I'm passing the JavaScript Variable to the PHP Variable (Which Im not sure is the right way).
When I echo the JavaScript Variable It displays.

But the problem is the the variable $dor consists of <script langauge="JavaScript"> document.write (da) </script> I just want the value of javascript variable da. Im stuck, How to pass a value of JavaScript variable into a PHP variable.

Please Help 🙁

See code below

<script language="JavaScript">
var mydate=new Date();
var temp=mydate.getMonth()+1
var da;
document.write("Todays date \t:\t");
var da = mydate.getDate() + "/" + temp + "/" + mydate.getYear();
document.write(da);
document.write("System time \t:\t");
document.write(mydate.getHours() + ":" + mydate.getMinutes() + ":" + mydate.getSeconds());
</script>

<?
$dor = "<script language=JavaScript> document.write(da) </script>";
echo $dor; // Displays the Date Of Client Side
//Coverting Date in to MySQL Format
echo "Original Date ".$dor; 
$y = substr($dor, 6, 10);
$d = substr($dor, 0, 2);
$m = substr($dor, 3, 2);
echo "<br>Year ".$y; 
echo "<br>Day ".$d;
echo "<br>Month ".$m;
$ndor = "$y-$m-$d";
echo "<br>New Date ".$ndor;
?>

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Thanx a lot

[morphy_6deex]

dont forget what is executed server side and what client side... it seems to that there is a big kaos in that important concept... js is a client side language, php is a server side one...

yr web server, first, parses all php doing what he has to do then, the obtained plain/text is sent to the brows which parses it depending the headers he found... in that case, text/html

dont expect dat $dor contains the date... $dor contains only the string: "<script language=JavaScript> document.write(da) </script>", not more... and $dor is server side...

[sarahk]

I think you need to think of this as two steps.

first

<form name="myForm" action="dothis.php" method="get">
<input type='hidden' name='clientdate'>
<input type='hidden' name='clienttime'>
<!-- all the other fields-->
<input type='submit'>
</form>
<script language='Javascript'>
var mydate=new Date();
var temp=mydate.getMonth()+1
var da = mydate.getDate() + "/" + temp + "/" + mydate.getYear();
document.myForm.clientdate = da;
document.myForm.clienttime = mydate.getHours() + ":" + mydate.getMinutes() + ":" + mydate.getSeconds());
</script>

then step 2 is the contents of dothis.php

<?php
echo "System Date: " . _POST["clientdate"] . "<br>";
echo "System Time: " . _POST["clienttime"] . "<br>";
?>

BUT ... you have to give the user some reason to submit the form. This can be as simple as a url, where the form action is really just the page to call. You can have this within a form to submit
<a href='javascript:submit();'>Contacts</a> and the user thinks it's just any old hyperlink but in fact it's a form laden with information.

[maskme]

Thanx sarahk