PHP - How To Get My Local Timezone Irrespective Of My Ini File Server Time Zone

Hi there,

Can anybody help me to write php/javascript code which will allow users to open files directly from web browser into desktop application? Here is the specification:

I have a photo editing business with many people working in Photoshop. I am currently developing a web based application (joblist) using Javascript and PHP which should allow the photoshop designers to browse and open files/images directly from joblist/web browser into photoshop. The reason I want this instead of browsing folder is that I have a database where I store who worked on which file, when and how long it took.

The concept is that, designers will select a file and click on start, as soon as they click on start the original file will open in Photoshop and there will be an entry into database (using PHP). Once they finish the task they will close the file and click on Finish button.

My joblist application will be published in a local server and the file will be open on a local network, so when they save the file it will be saved where the source file is located in (local server). The application should work in both PC and Mac.

I have already done all other part of the application except file opening directly from browser to desktop application functionality.

Anybody can help me to write the code (PHP or Javascript) which can open the file from browser (local server) directly into desktop application e.g. PHotoshop or Illustrator?

Thank you very much I look forward to someone's real help!

Best regards
Mr. Sumon

Hello,

I tried to implement some PHP code to enable a web page to show "Dinner" specials versus "Lunch" specials based on the time.

The business is located in the Eastern Time Zone, so I only need to routine to work based on Eastern Time (New York).

What I am noticing is that the server is processing the lines of code so fast that the command to establish the correct time for the remaining code is not always being acknowledged.

This line of code appears to be processing too fast for the remaining lines of code:
date_default_timezone_set ( "America/New_York" );

Is there some additional code I can put in place to make sure the correct time is always ascertained?

I need the $hourmin variable to always return a combination of hour + minute based on 24-hour time and Eastern Time zone.

My code is as follows:


 <?php
   $name8 = file_get_contents("test/special8name.txt");
date_default_timezone_set ( "America/New_York" );
$gethour = date("H");
$getminutes = $gettimedate["minutes"];
$gettimedate = date();
$hourmin = $gethour . $getminutes;
$currentday = date("l", time());
$currentdate = date("M j, Y");
if ($hourmin < 1500 && $currentday <> "Saturday" && $currentday <> "Sunday") {
   echo "<span class=\"namesred\">$name8 </span>";
}
  else if ( $hourmin > 1500 && $hourmin < 2300 && $currentday <> "Saturday" && $currentday <> "Sunday") {
   echo "<span class=\"namesblue\">$name8 </span>";
  }
  else if ( $currentday == "Saturday" or $currentday == "Sunday") {
   echo "<span class=\"namesblue\">$name8 </span>";
  }
?>

How to set the time zone? All 3 shows the same time??? 

<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Australia/Melbourne"); 
echo "time=" . time();
?>

<?php
echo "time=" . time();
?>

<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Antarctica/Palmer"); 
echo "time=" . time();
?>

Having a problem since the time change of 1 hour.

Times now show 2:08 when it is 3:08

I am using:
Code: [Select]
date_default_timezone_set('EST');

date('g:i a');

Any way to fix this to show corrent time?

Are time zones when calling the date function automatically decided based on where you live? Or is that something that I have to implement--Because the time is wrong according to my time zone.

I am sorry I have absolutely no idea where this question fits in this forum bcoz its related to PHP , MySQL and Javascript... 

So here is my question ..

I use MySql database to store posts.. where 'postdate and time' is saved using  'CURRENT_TIMESTAMP' of MySql that offcourse gives "2010-08-31 09:47:10" format...

When I have to calculate when the post was posted just before loading the posts on users wall e.g.

"2 min ago"...

I take the 'postdate and time' from database then use strtotime() function in php to convert it to string you know since jan 1 1970.

Now this time stamp is sent to javascript function which uses 'Date' Object to create current time and then 'getTime' to get the string like one Mentioned earlier. it then calculates the difference and displays it..

Just to inform you.. I used javascript to I may refresh "posted since" periodically using "SetInterval()"

But the problem here arises. There is difference of 1 Hour and 24 Sec in both times.......

  Sorry If I confused you... But the problem is simple. In javascript date object and MySql  --> strtotime()
there is time difference...

How I can correct it ???


please Help ...

Codes:

1. function to convert str to time


function change($date){

$time_early=strtotime($date);

return $time_early;


}



 

2. javascript Code to check "Post Since"



function calc_difference() {

$("[name=posttime]").each(function() {

 var current=$(this).attr("id");
  localtimevalue = new Date();
d = localtimevalue.getTime();

         
 
 var d= parseInt(d)/1000;
 var diff=d-parseInt(current);  

 var diff=parseInt(diff);
 var min=parseInt(diff/60);         
 var hours=parseInt(diff/3600);
var days=parseInt(diff/86400);
var months=parseInt(diff/2592000);
var years=parseInt(diff/31104000);


if( min==0 ){ 


$(this).text("Posted: "+diff +" seconds ago ");

}



if(min>0 && hours==0 && days==0 && months==0){ 
if(min==1){
 $(this).text("Posted:  a minute ago ");
        
}else{
 
$(this).text("Posted: "+min +" minutes ago ");
}

}

if(min>0 && hours>0 && days==0 && months==0){ 

if(hours==1){
 $(this).text("Posted:  an hour ago ");
        
}else{
 
$(this).text("Posted: "+hours +" hours ago ");
}



}

if(days>0 && months==0 && years==0){ 


if(days==1){
 $(this).text("Posted:  a day ago ");
        
}else{
 
$(this).text("Posted: "+days +" days ago ");
}



}



if(months>0 && years==0 ){ 


if(months==1){
 $(this).text("Posted:  a month ago ");
        
}else{
 
$(this).text("Posted: "+months +" months ago ");
}



}


if(years>0){ 


if(years==1){
 $(this).text("Posted:  a year ago ");
        
}else{
 
$(this).text("Posted: "+years +" years ago ");
}



}








  });


   
}






 
Javascript function is called on load and Jquery's .each function is used to update all post's time.


 

Hi
My code was working perfectly when my hosting company located in Japan. But i transfer to US(hostgator) and now my time zone changes asia/tokyo to America/Chicago. Therefore, all my codes, scripts and sites are following one day behind of Japan local time.
Great appreciate for any help. My code is below:


<?php

$host = "localhost";
$user = "user";
$pass = "pass";
$data = "mysql_db";

$cn     = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);
mysql_select_db($data, $cn) or die("Could not Connect Database Please Try again later !!!");
mysql_query("set names utf-8", $cn);

if(date("H:i:s") < '03:00:00') // Changes midnight 00:00:00 to 03:00:00
          $midnight = 1;
else
          $midnight = 0;

       $TODAY__ = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("n"), date("d") - $midnight, date("Y"));
       date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Tokyo');
?>

By using the function date_default_timezone_set() I am trying to set my timezone. Do I have to change anything else in any other files like php.ini?

Hi,  I am not a PHP programmer.

I took on a new client with a simple PHP site, without any databases.
The site is up and running on the web.
I would like to get it running on my local machine for further development.
I have latest version of WAMP installed, running Apache version 2.2.11 and PHP version 5.3.0
I created a directory in the WAMP "www" project directory and it shows up there like it's supposed to when I browse to "localhost"

Problem:

The home page of website displays text but no, images, styles, footer, header, nav links, etc.


Here is the code for the home page:

<?
  define("NAV","home");
require_once('local/local.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>TITLE</title>
    <meta name="keywords" content="">
    <meta name="Description" content="">

<? include("common/dochead.php"); ?>

    </head>

<body onLoad="<? include('common/preloads.php'); ?>">

<!-- ============================ main ============================= -->
<div id="main-frame"><div id="main" class="noCollapse">

<? include("common/sign.php"); ?>

<div id="right-frame">

<? include("common/navigation.php"); ?>

<div id="content-frame">
<div id="content">


<h1>Welcome</h1>
<p>This is the content area. This is the content area. This is the content area. </p>


</div><!-- end content -->
</div><!-- end content-frame -->

</div><!-- end right-frame -->

<div class="clearFloats"></div>

</div><!-- end main --></div><!-- end main-frame -->

<? include("common/footer.php"); ?>

   </body>
</html>



Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have spent many hours on this.

Regards

I'm trying to make a simple website where people register to my website.

When the user doesn't fill anything inside the boxes they get a message "Please fill all required fields" on the register.php page

On my local host require_once works good. It shows up.

 

But when i upload the files to my sever the require_once does not show up on the register.php

It just refreshes and i dont get the message "Please fill all required fields"

 

This is the code that works in local host but not in a live server

<?php require_once 'messages.php'; ?>

 

 

Here is my full code

 

Register page:

<html>


<?php require_once 'messages.php'; ?>

<br><br>


<form action="register-clicked.php" method="POST">

Username:<br>
<input type="text" name="usernamebox" placeholder="Enter Username Here">
<br><br>
Email:<br>
<input type="text" name="emailbox" placeholder="Enter email here">
<br><br>
Password:<br>
<input type="password" name="passwordbox" placeholder="Enter password here">
<br><br>
Confirm Password:<br>
<input type="password" name="passwordconfirmbox" placeholder="Re-enter password here">
<br><br>

<input type="submit" name="submitbox" value="Press to submit">
<br><br>

</form>

</html>

 

 

Register clicked

<?php


session_start();



$data = $_POST;

if( empty($data['usernamebox']) ||
    empty($data['emailbox']) ||
    empty($data['passwordbox']) ||
    empty($data['passwordconfirmbox'])) {
    $_SESSION['messages'][] = 'Please fill all required fields';
    header('Location: register.php');
    exit;

}




if ($data['passwordbox'] !== $data['passwordconfirmbox']) {
    $_SESSION['messages'][] = 'Passwords do not match';
    header('Location: register.php');
    exit;
}


$dsn = 'mysql:dbname=mydatabase;host=localhost';
$dbUser='myuser';
$dbPassword= 'password';

try{
$connection = new PDO($dsn, $dbUser, $dbPassword);
} catch (PDOException $exception){
    $_SESSION['messages'][] = 'Connection failed: ' . $exception->getMessage();
    header('Location: register.php');
    exit;
}

 

 

messages.php

<?php
session_start();

if (empty($_SESSION['messages'])){
    return;
}

$messages = $_SESSION['messages'];
unset($_SESSION['messages']);
?>



<ul>
    <?php foreach ($messages as $message): ?>
        <li><?php echo $message; ?></li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:49 AM by bee65

Following a tutorial on udemy, i tried to learn the very basics of mvc structure. I built the same project on my local server and it worked without giving me any error. but when i tried it on live server. its not working as it should. not showing any error. I tried to figure out the problem and found that for every page loading, it stops at the same line in my main.php file.

<?php require($view); ?>

starting from the above line. it stops. i came here to share my problem but i am unable to upload my files here. if there is a way to upload and share my files, please guide. zip file size of the whole project is 31.6 kb

PHP date and time function is not showing correct time on my local system

I have the following php code

date_default_timezone_set("Africa/Lagos");

$date = date('d-m-y h:i:s');

echo "Server Time ".$date ."<br>";

echo "The time is " . date("h:i:sa")."<br>";

$current_datetime = date("Y-m-d") . ' ' . date("H:i:s", STRTOTIME(date('h:i:sa')));

echo "Current time1: ".$current_datetime . "<br>";

 

Output

Server Time 21-05-21 09:55:39
The time is 09:55:39am
Current time1: 2021-05-21 09:55:39

 

Expected Output

Server Time 21-05-21 10:55:39
The time is 10:55:39am
Current time1: 2021-05-21 10:55:3

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Edited May 21 by Ponel

I'm working on a project that has a lot of different timezone options, and all I have from the users is their UTC offset.

After weeks of doing tweaks, I come to new issues every time I add something, one would think it would be a lot easier to just get the correct time and day :)

The latest issue is that when I try to rewrite a date to a better fomat, it disregards the GMT offset. Like this:

4/14/19, 12:00 PM GMT+2 (=$date) becomes ... 14-04-2019 10:00 when using this code:

$bp_date_to_format = date_create_from_format('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP', $date);
echo date_format($bp_date_to_format, 'd-m-Y H:i');

I figured it would just rewrite the format, keeping the exact time. It isn't.

We do have all these sorts of localization functions as well, but because there doesn't seem to be one single standard (each 3rd party API connection we have uses its own default datetime format so it seems).

        // Remove UTC Text
        $UTC_offset = str_replace('UTC', '', $timezone);

        // Get Offset in Minutes
        if (stripos($UTC_offset, ':') !== false) {
            // Calculate seconds from offset
            list($hours, $minutes) = explode(':', $offset);
            $seconds = $hours * 60 * 60 + $minutes * 60;
        } else {
            $seconds = $UTC_offset * 60 * 60;
        }

        // Get User timezone name from seconds
        $timezone = timezone_name_from_abbr('', $seconds, 1);
        if ($timezone === false) {
            $timezone = timezone_name_from_abbr('', $seconds, 0);
        }
        // Set new TZ
        return date_default_timezone_set($timezone);

 

Isn't there any "one way"solution that can be used? It's confusing to say the least.

 

Cheers.

I just did a huge import from an app I have been working on. No issues except for this.

I uploaded & imported all files & databases from my wampserver (localhost, local server) to my main online server.

Before I continue with the problem, I have to give you info on how the files work.

I am using a "controller" to view the files. Meaning, from index.php, I call all the files. For example, instead of mysite.com/register.php, its mysite.com/index.php?page=register.

The index defines the doctype & html tags etc.

The other files that are called through index.php are just pure php code, it does not contain the head & body tags etc.

So, the issue is , when the surfer submits a form, i need to set a cookie. this cookie is VERY important.
I cannot get it to work. I am getting the header warnings after submit

Of course, this is to be expected. But I tried it on my local server, & it worked. I am not very familiar with cookies, this is a side of PHP i never really even touched. I know almost everything but that.  So the php code is before the html code on the page, so I figured it was worth a shot.
Im guessing the problem here is, since the code being outputted as index.php code + the form page code. So the cookie is being set after the html tags.

How can I fix this? I need it to work thru the controller. I cannot just make it a single file, all files on the site needs to be thru this controller, otherwise it will mess everything up.

Ino I could just add the code from index.php plus the form page code & just run the php code before all of the html tags, but like I said it has to be called thru index.php.

I appreciate your replies, & I hope you guys dont think im an idiot & can understand my question, im terrible with words!

Hi ppl

I have a weird error... (or at least i think its weird)

I have a project with 3 forms, and at the end(the last file) will enter all data of this form in an email and sent it using PEAR smtp email. On my local server it works. Everything - from testing all the mandatory fields in each form till the sending of the email. I also receive the email using @localhost.

When I upload these files to the server, every form with the testing of the mandatory fields and returning to that form, everything works, except the file where I test the last form and put all content in the email body.

On the server, as soon as the last  page starts to load, I get a Server Error HTTP Error 500. I really don't understand it, as everything works on my local xampp server.

Please let me know of places I can search for errors... like log files on the server or something like that.

Thanks

PS: I also used NetBeans, with its debugger, so I am quite sure its not the code, maybe a php setting...