Question

Please Make This Script Work

Asked by: yunkaa

Hello,

Thanks for reading our question!  We would like to be able to show the date in our timezone, which is different from the server's timezone.  We found a script that should do what we like.  But, we do not know what parts to remove, and so the script is not functioning for us?  Please could one of you kind experts delete all the exrtraneous lines from the code below and leave us with just the working parts.  Our server offset should be 14 hours ahead.  If possible, please could you make it so that it shows just the date, not the time.  Could the date format be:

Long Day Long Month Day Number Long Year
Ex.
Friday July 16th 2004

Many thanks,

Yunkaa

<?php

// melbdate.php3
// rename file extension from .txt to .php3
// or to .php (updated April 2003)

// Script copyright (C) 2000 Dean Kennedy, Terrabyte Communications
// Version 1.02 06 November 2003
// Free to use, modify and copy so long as you leave the above
// two lines in comments. You can safely delete all other comments
// and just leave the four line script

// Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
// Because it is licensed free of charge, there is NO WARRANTY, it is
// provided AS IS. The author can not be held liable for any damage that
// might arise from the use of this software. Use it at your own risk.
// http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

// To adjust the format of the date, see the list of variables at the
// official PHP site (php.net): http://www.php.net/manual/function.date.php
//
// If your local time is *behind* the server time, then change the "+" to
// a "-" in the $melbdate line
//
// Keep in mind that you'll have to update the $hourdiff variable within the
// script when your *local* daylight saving time/standard time changes, if
// it is a different setting to the server daylight saving/standard time

// Variable for hours

$hourdiff = "14"; // hours difference between server time and local time

// If you don't know how many hours, then "uncomment" the three lines
// below by deleting "// " to see what the server time is (remember to
// put the comments "// " back when you've finished checking:

// $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a");
// print ("$serverdate");
// print (" &nbsp; <p>");

// Nothing needs to be changed below here unless you want to change
// the format of the date (see above for URL of options) or your local
// time is behind the server time

$timeadjust = ($hourdiff * 60 * 60);

$melbdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a",time() + $timeadjust);

print ("$melbdate");

?>

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2004-07-15 at 23:07:27ID21060858
Topic

PHP Scripting Language

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Answers

 

by: ldbkuttyPosted on 2004-07-16 at 02:24:22ID: 11566648

<?php

$hourdiff = "14"; // hours difference between server time and local time

// If you don't know how many hours, then "uncomment" the three lines
// below by deleting "// " to see what the server time is (remember to
// put the comments "// " back when you've finished checking:

// $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a");
// print ("$serverdate");
// print (" &nbsp; <p>");

// Nothing needs to be changed below here unless you want to change
// the format of the date (see above for URL of options) or your local
// time is behind the server time

$timeadjust = ($hourdiff * 60 * 60);

$melbdate = date("l, d F Y",time() + $timeadjust);

print ("$melbdate");

?>

 

by: SquinkyPosted on 2004-07-16 at 02:26:42ID: 11566663

print date("l F jS Y", strtotime('+14 hours'));

 

by: ldbkuttyPosted on 2004-07-16 at 02:28:12ID: 11566672

was in hurry...Squinky's solution is the best one.
:-)

 

by: yunkaaPosted on 2004-08-11 at 01:11:54ID: 11770514

Hello,

Thanks so much for the replies!! We are still a little confused.  Please could you show us what the code should look like?

Many thanks,

Yunkaa

 

by: SquinkyPosted on 2004-08-11 at 01:52:12ID: 11770700

Er, there isn't anything more to say! The line of code I gave you does exactly what you asked for!
I guess if you want to make it slightly more like your original code you could say:

$hourdiff = '+14 hours';
print date("l F jS Y", strtotime($hourdiff));

Really not the kind of thing I'd bother putting under a GPL! Takes longer to paste the license than to write the code!

I'd hope that you have ntpd running on your server.

 

by: yunkaaPosted on 2004-08-11 at 10:09:54ID: 11775688

Hello Squinky!!

Thanks so much for your answer!!  How would the code look?  Should we place these two lines in between the HTML body tags?  Or should they appear between php tags?  

Many thanks x 1000,

Yunkaa

 

by: SquinkyPosted on 2004-08-11 at 10:44:56ID: 11776159

Well if you want it to appear in the middle of some HTML, just paste this wherever you want it to appear:

<?php print date("l F jS Y", strtotime('+14 hours')); ?>

I guess you're quite new to this then? ;^)

 

by: yunkaaPosted on 2004-08-11 at 12:15:20ID: 11777257

hello Squinky,

Thanks so much for answering our question!!  Not really so new, but terrifically computer challenged :p :).  Here is the code we are using:

<html>

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php print date("l F jS Y", strtotime('+14 hours')); ?>
</body>

</html>

Are we doing this correctly?  When we use this, the page just comes up blank .  

Many thanks,

Yunkaa

 

by: Statick001Posted on 2004-09-15 at 09:01:04ID: 12066336

if you havent got PHP installed into a webserver then the PHP will not function...

 

by: yunkaaPosted on 2004-09-25 at 21:45:06ID: 12153445

Hello,

Thanks for answering our question! We do have it installed.  But, for some reason... get a blank page when running this code.

Many thanks,

Yunkaa

 

by: Statick001Posted on 2004-09-27 at 01:13:01ID: 12158260

what happens if you put
<?php echo "test"; ?>

 

by: dewedPosted on 2004-10-03 at 15:47:09ID: 12213600

Are these files named with a .php extension?  If they have a .html extension, likely your webserver (assumming apache) isn't configured to look for PHP in .HTML files. Try simply renaming your file with a .php extension.

 

by: yunkaaPosted on 2004-11-11 at 19:59:52ID: 12562411

THANKS EVERYONE for all your help!!  Each one of you is a hero!!!  We are so grateful for EE and all the kind people we find.  hanks again... :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Yunkaa

 

by: yunkaaPosted on 2004-11-11 at 20:00:22ID: 12562412

hanks!! = THANKS!!

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