Unix timestamps instead of human readable date and time

Strac72

I am using this php to write to a text file to show me who has logged in and when:


<?php
$time = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'];
$myusername = $_POST['myusername'];

$data = "$REQUEST_TIME\n";
$data = "$myusername\n";


//open the file and choose the mode
$fh = fopen("logs/login.txt", "a") ;

fwrite($fh, $data);
fwrite($fh, $time);
fclose($fh);

?>

The result I get in my text file is:

paul
1315919200melody
1315919221tracy&graham
1315919232ed&hannah
1315919251

I would feel more successful if the name of the user were to appear on the next line down but I can live with that but I can't make head nor tale of the date. I should apparently use:

date ()

I want it to say:
paul
13:59
13/09/2011

next user
14:00
13/09/2011 and so on

I feel I have done very well to even get that far really and wouldn't have been able to yesterday. I am frustrated to have reached the extent of my current understanding.

I've been told these are unix timestamps but I have no idea how to get the date() function into this.

If anyone can tell me where I'm going wrong, that would be great.

I hope the php isn't too far off, and you can "read between the lines" as it were to see what I'm trying to do.

Paul

bradgrafelman

Read the manual for [man]date/man. It explains how to use the function to generate whatever type of date/time you want.

Try it and show us what you come up with.

Strac72

Funny I should get your message the moment I finished doing exactly that!

After a few hours and a lot of swearing, I ended up with this:


<?php
date_default_timezone_set('GMT+01.00');

$date = date(r);
$myusername = $_POST['myusername'];


$data = "$myusername\n";
$date = "$date\n";

$fh = fopen("logs/login.txt", "a") ;

fwrite($fh, $data);
fwrite($fh, $date);
fclose($fh);

?>

Which has worked, apart from the timezone bit, which still reads as an hour behind. Bloomin' BST. It'll be over in a few weeks! Give a dog a bone! 8)

bradgrafelman

Couple of issues still:

"GMT+01.00" is not one of the supported [man]timezones[/man] listed in the manual (which probably explains why PHP didn't adjust the time correctly or at all).
The [man]date/man command expects a string as its first parameter, whereas you're attempting to pass in the constant named r. Unless you've defined such a [man]constant[/man], PHP will generate an error message and then try using the string 'r'.