1 hour timer

[IDontKnow]

I'm fairly new to PHP and am working on a scavenger type game. The user will log in, find an item from a clue on the list and click on it. This is fed into a database. No problem here, it's a simple insert.

My problem is creating a timer. I want to give the user an hour in one 24 hour time period. I want to make it where once their hour is up, they are taken to a page that advises them of this and their total score. And then, I do not want them to access that part of the site for 24 hours.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Mada

[rohithmr]

if u wanted to use javascript, u cudd write a small function in Javascript that will call itself in one hour. In that function u can refresh the page wit a variable to check and take them to the expired date.

You also cudd use sessions,register the starting time and and when the time is more than pne hour u cudd take them to the expiry page.

[matto]

my suggestions:

when the user logs in, store the login time in a "visits" table - along with the user's name.

in your game script(s), include a routine which calculates the time passed since the visits entry. if it is more than an hour -> display "oops sorry, wait for tomorrow".

if it is another day than the one stored in the "visits" table, delete the past visits entry and write a new one.

this is a database + login-based solution, no cookies/session necessary.

hope this helps!

[geetakhurana]

You can store the time when user loggs in

and then he comes again check the time difference it should be more than 24 hours

if it is then delete the old time and store new time else display him a sorry message