Updating server time.

Torniquet · Post by **Torniquet** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:35 am

If you want a little clock that tells you the time of the server (which is kinda what i was looking for a while ago but for flash)

never the less this does the jobby.

it uses an iframe as its display, with a seperate script which gets the time and refreshes the time every x seconds.

firstly. add the following to your header or where ever you want it displayed.

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<iframe src="../scripts/time.php" width="130" height="40" border="0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="1" marginheight="0" align="middle"></iframe>

then you need to make a 'time.php' file and add it to what ever folder (in my case its the scripts folder)

then input the following into this new file.

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<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=time.php" />
</head>

<body>
<?php

$time = date("H:i");
$date = date("d/m/y");
echo "<div align='center'>";
echo $date;
echo "<br />";
echo $time;
echo "</div>";
?>
</body>

as you can probably see, through <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=time.php" />, it is ordering a refresh every 10 seconds to the url 'time.php'

i dont completly understand all this, but it was made from a different tutorial for a flat based shoutbox, which i adapted. http://www.trap17.com/index.php/flat-ba ... 57148.html

its 100% working though. so thats all i care about. thought i would share

Post by **hallsofvallhalla** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:33 am

thanks for sharing this!

Falken · Post by **Falken** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:06 pm

A ok script.

Altho there are some issues with it, having a page constantly update the time each 10 seconds for lets say 1000 players is a lot of php script calls.

A better way would be to just get the time from PHP once, and then let a javascript keep a clock running, also making it look better.

Just some suggestions, could be a good way to start learning javascript

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