Echoing time/date

[MoE70]

hi

does anyone know how i might be able to echo a java script

example

chat box

<?php echo $msg; ?><i> <script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var currentTime = new Date()
var hours = currentTime.getHours()
var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes()

if (minutes < 10)
minutes = "0" + minutes

document.write(hours + ":" + minutes)
if(hours > 11){
document.write("pm")
} else {
document.write("am")
}
//-->
</script></i>

but i want to print th time after $msg

i tried the normal php tags time() but it prints it without a format...just numbers

i tried print date("D dS M,Y h:i a"); but that prints a different time zone. my hosting company's time zone perhaps

[penagate]

Use date_default_timezone_set() if on 5.1.x or later. Otherwise you're going to have to manually add the date difference on.

Note that there's no way to get the user's timezone, you'd need JS for that.

[MoE70]

nope unfortunately i got 4.3

but isnt there a way to make a php variable to echo the jave script? like for example

$time= "<?php echo $msg; ?><i> <script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var currentTime = new Date()
var hours = currentTime.getHours()
var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes()

if (minutes < 10)
minutes = "0" + minutes

document.write(hours + ":" + minutes)
if(hours > 11){
document.write("pm")
} else {
document.write("am")
}
//-->
</script></i>"

<? php echo $time ?>

btw i dont know php..

[penagate]

Haha. No, you can't run Javascript on the server.

I say this a lot because I really believe in it: It's of utmost importance, if you are going to be doing any web development, to understand the client/server relationship. The communication between server and client takes place in one hit - request made from the client - response from the server. PHP processing is done on the server before sending the response. JS processing starts in the browser once the response, containing JS code, is received. So that's why we say PHP is a server-side language and JS is client-side.

I'm sorry if you already knew any of that, but that's the reason why you can't run JS on the server (unless of course you had some sort of JS processor extension for PHP).

What exactly is the effect you are looking for? Do you wish to simply display the current date/time, in the user's timezone, on the page? If so, you can just do it purely client-side:

if (window.addEventListener)
  window.addEventListener('load', doOnload, false);
else if (window.attachEvent)
  window.attachEvent('onload', doOnload);

var timeDisplay;

function doOnload()
{
  timeDisplay = document.getElementById('time-display');
  setInterval(updateTime, 1000);
}

function updateTime()
{
  var currentTime = new Date()
  var hours = currentTime.getHours()
  var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes()
  var timeStr;

  if (minutes < 10)
    minutes = '0' + minutes

  timeStr = hours + ':' + minutes + ((hours > 11) ? 'pm' : 'am');

  if (timeDisplay.hasChildNodes())
    timeDisplay.firstChild.data = timeStr;
  else
    timeDisplay.appendChild(document.createTextNode(timeStr));
}

and in your HTML, wherever you want:

<span id="time-display"></span>

If you would like me to explain any of the Javascript please say and I will do so.