On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:27:28PM -0500, Jake McHenry wrote:
: "Chris Shiflett" responded:
: > --- Jake McHenry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > >
: > > I know this is a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a way I
: > > can take the server time in php and get it into javascript?
: >
: > JavaScript and HTML are the exact same thing from the perspective of
: > PHP; they're output. So yes, you can get any information from PHP to
: > JavaScript by writing it:
: >
: > <script language="javascript">
: > ...
: > <?
: > $ts = time();
: > echo "var ts = $ts;\n";
: > ?>
: > ...
: > </script>
:
: I have tried this already, and it works, the JavaScript get's the server's
: time, but then the JavaScript clock doesn't keep counting, it's stuck at the
: servers time. It needs that Date() function to keep pulling the time from
: the local machine I guess. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way I could
: pass the server time into the JavaScript Date() function to make it start
: counting from that time, instead of the users machine time.
That's because you're only giving it a static time and not a real
JavaScript Date() object. Try this:
<script language="javascript">
...
var ts = new Date(<?php echo time(); ?>);
...
</script>
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