Writing the date to a file

[andynick]

Hey all,

I have never used PHP before. I know, that's the last thing that a PHP board surfer wants to hear, right?

Well, I am an avid flash user and know my fair share of actionscript. I am making a flash file that will use the time and date as a variable, however I don't want flash to pull that info from the user's computer.

This brings me to PHP.

I am trying to figure out how to get the server's hour, minute, and date figures and write them to a text document. From snooping on this board I have found that this code:

<</I>?php
echo "The date is:";
echo date("H:i, jS F");
?>

Displays this:
The date is:16:30,9th June

(thanks laserlight!)

I figure that I'm halfway there. If anyone could possibly give me a hand here, I would really appreciate it!

-andy

[kevinsequeira]

use the date() function to get the time / date in the format u want

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

then use fopen() function to create a new file

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

and use fwrite() to write to the file

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php

reg
kevin

[andynick]

Thanks Kevin, here's what I have come up with....

<?php>
$info = date("m d h i");
$test = fopen ("file.txt", "w");
fwrite($test, $info);
fclose($test);
<?>

this should hopefully write the following text (on june 9th at 12:30)

06 09 12 30

does this sound about right? don't forget, it's the first thing I've ever done so be mindful of all my syntax and everything. (btw, I'm using a win2000 server so do I need to change the "w" to anything?

Thanks!!!!!
a

[laserlight]

More like:

<?php 
$info = date("m d h i"); 
$test = fopen("file.txt", "w"); 
fwrite($test, $info); 
fclose($test); 
?>

[andynick]

I was close, eh? I guess too used to html.

Thanks a TON!

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