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jameswildi
jameswildi

Reputation: 31

How to make PHP date and time update automatically

I have a script which displays the date and time.

How can I add something to make it update automatically instead of on page refresh.

Here is the script:

<?php
$hourdiff = 0; // Replace the 0 with your timezone difference (;
$site = date("l, d F Y g:i a",time() + ($hourdiff * 3600));
echo $site;
?>

Can anyone help. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30776

Answers (2)

Starx
Starx

Reputation: 78971

PHP is a server side language, and only ways you are going to send request to the server, are through redirection, navigation, refresh or through an ajax request.

So, You will need Javascript for that.

Here is a simple demo

setInterval(function() {
    var currentTime = new Date ( );    
    var currentHours = currentTime.getHours ( );   
    var currentMinutes = currentTime.getMinutes ( );   
    var currentSeconds = currentTime.getSeconds ( );
    currentMinutes = ( currentMinutes < 10 ? "0" : "" ) + currentMinutes;   
    currentSeconds = ( currentSeconds < 10 ? "0" : "" ) + currentSeconds;    
    var timeOfDay = ( currentHours < 12 ) ? "AM" : "PM";    
    currentHours = ( currentHours > 12 ) ? currentHours - 12 : currentHours;    
    currentHours = ( currentHours == 0 ) ? 12 : currentHours;    
    var currentTimeString = currentHours + ":" + currentMinutes + ":" + currentSeconds + " " + timeOfDay;
    document.getElementById("timer").innerHTML = currentTimeString;
}, 1000);

Upvotes: 7

svlada
svlada

Reputation: 3288

You can display current time using javascript.

Here is one introducary article about this: http://www.elated.com/articles/creating-a-javascript-clock/

Also posible duplicate: show server time using php and jquery ajax

Upvotes: 2

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