Local time

[edmaunders]

Hey,

I am trying to do the follwing but i dont even know were to start so any help would be amazing,

When a user click a button on my page called start job I want PHP to record the users local time and store in a mySQL database. I then want to compare the time to another time call Job posted and store the diff between the time in mins or hours

can this even be done with PHP, any help just to get me started would be very helpful

Many thanks

Ed

[Moharo]

If you want to get the user's local time (on his machine), use JavaScript (pass the value of the time to the hidden field in the form) or simply used server's timestamp using php's function "time()" or "microtime()". And YES, what you are trying to do is possible in PHP