[RESOLVED] System date

phprooky

Hi everyone,
How can I bring the system date into a hidden field using the following format:
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss?

JVassie

$now = time();
$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $now);

<input type="hidden" name="date" value="<?php echo $date; ?>">

That should give you what you want 🙂

phprooky

Hi JVassie, is working very well. Thanks a lot for your help!!

dalecosp

True, nice work; but you don't need the $now variable or the call to [man]time/man.

$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

is enough.

JVassie

dalecosp;10970615 wrote:
True, nice work; but you don't need the $now variable or the call to [man]timeman.
$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
is enough.

Well I never knew that, you learn something new every day, thanks 🙂

dalecosp

You're welcome, of course. It's probably a good idea to get into the habit of making things as simple as possible --- less code, less variables (if you're not going to use something more than once, that is) equals less server load and a "quicker" website.

AAMOF, since you've got a php [man]echo/man in your HTML, it should probably be just:

<input type="hidden" name="date" value="<?php echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s");  ?>">

bradgrafelman

Also note that if this value is to be used for a database or anything of that nature, that there are two reasons why I wouldn't use a hidden form field:

It can be modified. Anything you output in the client-side code can be altered before it's submitted.
There's no reason to generate the date in PHP if you're storing the data in a MySQL server - MySQL is certainly capable on its own to insert the current date/time.

If using a TIMESTAMP field, for example, this is done automatically for you.