[liljoeyjordison]

Hey, I'm pretty new to the whole php "thang" and I wanted to know how I would go about getting a clock on a webpage. I know how to get it to output the date/time with

Code:

$nowtime = date("g, i, s");

However that outputs static text, not very exciting. I then cobbled together virtually everything i know about php and came up with

Code:

$nowtime = date("g, i, s");
do
{
  echo $nowtime;
  
  $checktime = ("g, i, s");
} while ( 0 == 0) ;## to make it infinite

That just outputs an infinite amount of meaningless numbers into my lovely structured webpage.

Any help on this will be greatly appriciated

[James Talbot]

Your best bet is to do this with Javascript as it is much easier. I dont think there is a simple way of doing it in PHP without refreshing every second? Anyone know a way?

[digioz]

Here is a Java Applet as an alternative:

http://www.digioz.com/java.php


Another way to do this is to write it in Javascript as James said.

[liljoeyjordison]

dagnabbit.... Java gives me the jibblies...

[moronovich]

and why do you want php to do it? creating a dynamic clock with php is the same with pinging your server everytime, it's just wasting your bandwith. javascript is a feasible solution (though browser compliance could be another case). you can stick with it, at least till now.

[SwitchBlade]

<?php
// Configure The Var Below To Your TimeZone
// Ex 2, 0, -2, etc...
$TimeZoneDif = "0";
$nowtime = Date("U");
$AddTime = $TimeZoneDif * 3600;
$YourTime = $nowtime + $AddTime;
echo Date("g, i, s", $YourTime);
?>

[liljoeyjordison]

Iunno why I need php, I guess it just annoyed me that I could get half of the problem correct, but not the whole thing, thanks to everyone etc