PHP - Searching 2 Tables At The Same Time

Hi,

I have a problem. i want to show the current date and time in my tables of the database. I want to show it because i want to show it on my report generated in php.

By the way i do not have a "date" field in my form. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
Heshan.

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 am trying to simulate an ad expiration and carry out an action if the ad is expired. And I cannot get the if/else to work properly... I've tried many variations and I cannot see what I am doing wrong here. Any tips please 3 hours and counting of no solution!

$ad_start = time()-14 . "<br />"; // 14 days from today in the past (negative)
echo $ad_start;

$current_time = time() . "<br />"; // current epoch time
echo $current_time;

$days_past = $ad_start - $current_time; // days past

echo "<br />$days_past days have past since the ad started!<br />";

if($days_past <= 14)
{
echo "<br />Ad is less than 14 days.  Not expired.";
}
else
{
echo "<br />Ad is over 14 days. Expired.";
}

Basically I have recently been playing around with parsing a csv file. What I am looking to do at this point is simply take the date/timestamp (part of the csv file), which is in the following format:DD/MM HH:MM:SS.100th/s
For the sake of argument, lets say I have this in an array string called $csv[0] and the file has several lines that span the course of a couple hours. I wouldn't mind having to use explode() to breakup/remove the date or 100th/s IF that would make things a lot simpler.

So where would I start in trying to achieve this?. The result I am looking for will simply return "X Seconds". Storing this in a string variable would be a bonus, as I plan to use this to divide a separate piece of information.

Any examples or ideas would be great. Thank you.

ps:
Here is an example time from the csv file itself:
Code: [Select]
11/19 22:23:18.143

This portion is kind of stumping me. Basically, I have a two tables in this DB: users and users_access_level (Separated for DB normalization)

users: id / username / password / realname / access_level
users_access_level: access_level / access_name

What I'm trying to do, is echo the data onto an HTML table that displays users.username in one table data and then uses the users.access_level to find users_access_level.access_name and echo into the following table data, I would prefer not to use multiple queries if possible or nested queries.

Example row for users: 1234 / tmac / password / tmac / 99
Example row for users_access_level: 99 / Admin

Using the examples above, I would want the output to appear as such:

Username: Access Name: Tmac Admin
I am not 100% sure where to start with this, but I pick up quickly, I just need a nudge in the right direction.

The code I attempted to create just shows my lack of knowledge of joining tables, but I'll post it if you want to see that I did at least make an effort to code this myself.

Thanks for reading!

Im doing a search system and Im having some problems. I need to search in two tables (news and pages), I already had sucess doing my search system for just one table, but for two tables its not easy to do. I already use a select statment with two tables using UNION because I want to show number of search results, that is number of returned rows of my first sql statment. But now I need to do a select statment that allows me to acess all fields of my news table and all fields of my pages table. I need to acess in my news table this fields: id, title, content, link, date, nViews I need to acess in my pages table this fields: id, title, content, link Im trying to do this also with UNION, but in this case Im not having any row returning. Do you see what I have wrong in my code?   <?php
//first I get my $search keyword
$search = $url[1];

$pdo = connecting();
//then I want to show number of returned rows for keyword searched
$readALL = $pdo->prepare("SELECT title,content FROM news WHERE title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ?
UNION SELECT title,content FROM pages WHERE title LIKE ? OR content like ?");
$readALL->bindValue(1,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->bindValue(2,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->bindValue(3,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->bindValue(4,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->execute();
//I show number of returned rows
echo '<p>Your search keyword returned <strong>'.$readALL->rowCount().'</strong> results!</p>';
//If dont return any rows I show a error message
if($readALL->rowCount() <=0){
echo 'Sorry but we didnt found any result for your keyword search.';
}
else{
//If return rows I want to show, if it is a page result I want to show title and link that I have in my page table
//if it is a news result I want to show title and link that I have in my news table and also date of news
echo '<ul class="searchlist">';
$readALL2 = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM news WHERE status = ? AND title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ? LIMIT 0,4
UNION SELECT * FROM pages where title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ? LIMIT 0,4");
$readALL2->bindValue(1, '1');
$readALL2->bindValue(2, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL2->bindValue(3, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL2->bindValue(4, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL2->execute();

while ($result = $readALL2->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
echo '<li>';
echo '<img src="'.BASE.'/uploads/news/'.$result['thumb'].'"/>';
echo '<a href="'.BASE.'/news/'.$result['id_news'].'">'.$result['title'].'</a>';
//if it is a news result I also want to show date on my list
//echo '<span id="date">'.$result['date'].'</span>';
echo '</li>';
}
echo ' </ul>';
//but how can I do my select statement to have access to my news table fields and my page table fields??
}
?>

I am trying to write some data from multiple SQL tables to a page. In the first table is a list of places. I then have more tables that are named after the different places. For example, say my first place in the list is called Place1. I have a table named Place1 with data that corresponds to place1. The data contained in the table named Place1 is a list of things to do in this place. It has 21 columns and each one is something to do in the morning, afternoon, and at night for each day of the week in the place Place1. What I am trying to do is display a sort of weekly calendar as a table on a webpage that lists all of the places in one column and then lists seven days of the week as 7 more columns. Then in each data cell I would want to list the things to do in the morning, afternoon and at night for the certain day of the week and for the place. The problem is that I am creating a CMS to allow other users with no coding knowledge to update events for other places, so I have to display data that could have been altered.

The only solution I know of is to do a while loop that gets all of the place names and while there are still place names, write the place names to the page and set a variable equal to the place name. Inside the while loop I would create another while loop that each time the first while loop is executed uses the variable set in the first while loop to know which table to reference and then make a call to that table pulling out the 21 columns and writing them to the page. Each time the outer while loop executes, it would (hopefully) write the place name, and then set the variable as the current place name so that the inner while loop uses the variable to write the rest of the information about that place.

I don't know if that would even work and if it did, I know it cannot be the best way to do this. I am pretty stuck here and don't really have a good solution so if anyone proposes a solution that is radically different to anything I have done, I am open to everything. Thank you!

OK So I've got a datepicker that sends a date in d/m/y format. My DB stores the data in Unix Timestamp Which I can convert the date to with strtotime however this does the exact date & time.

All I want is the actual day. I've spent hours trying to convert this with just the day with mixed results...

Thanks.

This topic has been moved to Application Design.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=316461.0

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>";
  }
?>

PHP 5.2.6

We rent PHP server space on a server in California. Several of my pages generated by PHP show the current date and time, so when the page is printed, the user knows when the data was printed. Our users could be anywhere in the US, I am in Michigan. How do I convert the server time (PDT) into local time, regardless of where the user is?

Thanks.

What are the differences and implications of UTC time and Zulu time?
  

<?php
function getArr(string $time):array
{
    $dateTime = new \DateTime($time);
    return [
        'time'=>$time,
        'timestamp'=> $dateTime->getTimestamp(),
        'dateTime' => $dateTime
    ];
}
$arr = getArr('2020-08-05');  
$arr_z = getArr('2020-08-05T00:00:00Z');  

print_r($arr);
print_r($arr_z);

echo('equal timestamps: '.($arr['timestamp'] === $arr['timestamp']?'true':'false'));

 

Array
(
    [time] => 2020-08-05
    [timestamp] => 1596585600
    [dateTime] => DateTime Object
        (
            [date] => 2020-08-05 00:00:00.000000
            [timezone_type] => 3
            [timezone] => UTC
        )

)
Array
(
    [time] => 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
    [timestamp] => 1596585600
    [dateTime] => DateTime Object
        (
            [date] => 2020-08-05 00:00:00.000000
            [timezone_type] => 2
            [timezone] => Z
        )

)
equal timestamps: true

 

I am having a problem with PHP displaying the correct date and time. It updates as it should, but is fast by 4min and is always displaying a date in 2004. I ran a basic php script to make sure the application im using itself is not wrong. go to lunenburgledger.com/time.php

Anybody had any ideas on where to check? The system time on the Windows Server 2003 is correct. The only thing I can think of is that it was converted to a virtual machine on vmware esxi, but the system time stayed right. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Ok I have a set of PDF files that i need to be searchable. My question how do i go about doing this. Can this be achieved with php or do a need to do something else?

I'm having some trouble with a GET search code; everything works until the stringresult but then it dies to Error Querying Database
Code: [Select]
<html>
<body>

<?php

//Get sort setting and search terms from URL with GET
$usersearch = $_GET['usersearch'];
echo 'Search word: ' . $usersearch;
echo '<br>';
require_once("dbvars.php");

//Connect to Database
$dbc = mysqli_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PW, DB_NAME) or die ("Error connecting to database.");

//Build the Query
$query = "SELECT * FROM customers" . 'WHERE customers.given_name=\'' . $usersearch . '\'';
echo $query;

//Execute the Query
$result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die ("Error querying database.");

//Create the Table Headings
echo '<table border="1"><tr>';
echo '<td><b>First Name</b></td>';
echo '<td><b>Last Name</b></td>';
echo '<td><b>Address</b></td>';
echo '<td><b>City</b></td>';
echo '<td><b>Province</b></td>';
echo '<td><b>Postal Code</b></td>';
echo '<td><b>Phone Number</b></td>';
echo '</tr>';

//Display Results through Array Loop
While ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<tr><td>' . $row['given_name'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['surname'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['address'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['city'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['province'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['postal_code'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['phone_number'] . '</td></tr>';
}
'</table>';

// Close the database connection
mysqli_close($dbc);

?>


<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="get">
 <input name="usersearch" type="text" size="30" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="go" />
</form>

</body>
</html>