If its 10 minutes difference....

trehy2006

OK, So this is an odd one!

When a user logs in, a two cookies are set, one with the date and one with the time they logged in.

I then want to run a script that will check to see if the date = today (done)

If its today but has been 10 or more minutes since the cookie was updated, update it.

I hope that makes sense!

So far I have

		$min = date('i');
		$newMin = $min+10;
		if ($_COOKIE['logint'] <= date('H:').$newMin.date(':s')) {

But I have also tried

if($_COOKIE['logint'] <= time()+(0*0*10*0) {

Neither of which seem to work :S

Anyone know where im going wrong?

TIA

trehy2006

just been re-reading my code.

That first one wouldn't work if the minutes were at, for example, 58 cause it would add ten and get 68!

I'm really stuck with this one!

Help please, its doing my nutt in!! 😛

TIA

trehy2006

No-one can help?

devinemke

don't bother storing dates/times like that. use UNIX timestamps (see [man]time[/man]). this will be much easier to compare times.

trehy2006

which Is what I used in my second attempt.

But that method did not work?

devinemke

how is $_COOKIE['logint'] stored? what format?

trehy2006

using date('H:i:s')

But I have tried time() too...

EDIT: using the date method as I need it to be human readable

devinemke

if you store your cookie var as a timestamp then you can do:

if (time() - $_COOKIE['logint'] > 36000) {echo 'this cookie is 10 minutes old';}

you can always convert the timestamp back to a human readable [man]date[/man]

trehy2006

Ok, cool, how would I convert it back? 🙂

devinemke

as i indicated in my earlier post: [man]date[/man]

trehy2006

so would it be....?

date('H:i:s', [$_COOKIE['logint']])

date('H:i:s', $_COOKIE['logint'])

or something else?

Struggling to make complete sense of the page...

devinemke

echo date('H:i:s', $_COOKIE['logint']);

trehy2006

Cheers, Will try this later....

trehy2006

thanks that works great!!

only change I had to make was:

if (time() - $_COOKIE['logint'] > 36000) {echo 'this cookie is 10 minutes old';}

if (time() - $_COOKIE['logint'] > 600) {echo 'this cookie is 10 minutes old';}

as 600 is number of seconds in 10minutes 😉