Seeding a date jobject with php server time?

[BobMCT]

I've seen this covered in other forums but for what ever reason I can't get it to work for me. Perhaps many of you have done this before and would be willing to advise?

I need to create a clock on a web page that starts with the calling server time. That means calling the js function with a parameter when constructing the web page.

My code looks something like this:

$SysTime = time();

print <<<EOD
<script>
function clock () {
var serverdate = new Date(" . $SysTime . "000");
}
function padlength(what) {
var output=(what.toString().length==1)? "0"+what : what
return output
}
function displaytime() {
serverdate.setSeconds(serverdate.getSeconds()+1)
var datestring = montharray[serverdate.getMonth()]+" "+padlength(serverdate.getDate())+", "+serverdate.getFullYear()
var timestring = padlength(serverdate.getHours()) + ":" + padlength(serverdate.getMinutes()) + ":" + padlength(serverdate.getSeconds())
document.getElementById("_clock").innerHTML = datestring+" " + timestring
}
</script>
EOD;

If I don't try to set the initial value of the date object it seems to work. But when I do it simply does nothing.

Thanks

 

[vacunita]

This is more of a PHP question, however:

Your echo statement is very wrong, and will never produce a valid time for the javascript date function to use.

HEREDOC syntax like the one you are using does not allow the concatenation as you are attempting to do, since it treats everything inside as a string. So it literally outputs the SysTime variable value the quotes and the 3 0's into the Javascript date function which is of course invalid.

Try this:

$SysTime = time();
[red]$SysTime=$SysTime*1000;[/red]
print <<<EOD
<script>
function clock () {
  var serverdate = new Date([red]$SysTime[/red]);
}
function padlength(what) {
  var output=(what.toString().length==1)? "0"+what : what
  return output
}
function displaytime() {
  serverdate.setSeconds(serverdate.getSeconds()+1)
  var datestring = montharray[serverdate.getMonth()]+" "+padlength(serverdate.getDate())+", "+serverdate.getFullYear()
  var timestring = padlength(serverdate.getHours()) + ":" + padlength(serverdate.getMinutes()) + ":" + padlength(serverdate.getSeconds())
    document.getElementById("_clock").innerHTML = datestring+" " + timestring
}
</script>
EOD;

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