PHP date

[jamesm87]

Hi!

I want to have a page expire after 1 day. I want it so that it stores in the database the expire date and time (+ 1 day) and when the page is viewed it checks that the time has not gone pass its expiry. Lets say this for an expample:

$time = time();//The time now
$expire = time();//The time now + 1 day

$sql = "select expire_time from clients where clientid= $clientsnumber";
$result = // blah blah for query ect

if ($result['expire_time']<=$time)//If expire time has gone
{
die "This page has expired.... please request staff to re activate it for another day.";
}
else
{
//the rest of it (like insert new expire time or view info)

Any idea's how to do the time variables?

Thanks in advance

James

[lazzerous]

use the unix timestamp (date("U")😉

so...

$time_now = date("U");
$expire_time = $time_now - 86400;
// 86,400 seconds in a 24 hour period

and on the page to expire

// $expire_time (pulled from db)
if (date("U") >= $expire_time)
    {
    echo "page has expired";
    }

-=Lazz=-

[jamesm87]

Ok thankyou... although just want to confirm

$expire_time = $time_now - 86400; 

should that be:

$expire_time = $time_now + 86400; 

I may be wrong.

Thanks again

James