Php and displaying the current time

[flanamacca]

I want to display the current time as it occurs

so every second i want it to update the time and output the display.

Cheers in advance

[Ravenous]

You wanna make a clock? If so, use Javascript. If you're trying to display the time in a static manner like at the bottom of this thread, use the date() function. Search the PHP manual for "date".

[flanamacca]

so there is no way to do it with just php?? must use js??

Yeah i want it to be a clock

[Ravenous]

Now, I don't know that there is no way to do it with PHP (I'm pretty sure, but not certain.), but it has been done millions of times with Javascript. Why reinvent the wheel? Besides, why put that extra load on your server? Let your user's machine take care of that handling stuff. Are you wanting to display the local server time or the time on your user's machine? If the latter, then definitely use JS.