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[PaulCheung]

Excellent suggestion - However, for legal reasons it is important to capture 
the client time/date as it is always possible the date/time on the client 
machine has been altered and/or out of sync with the server time/date.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald J Organ IV" <dorgan at donaldorgan.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Passing JAVASCRIPT variables to PHP


> Why not just store the client time zone and store server data/time??
>
>
> PaulCheung wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> All I am trying to do is transfer the data and time from the client 
>> machine upto the server. The goal is to create a MySQL record by customer 
>> number and store both the client time/date and server time/date for each 
>> new record created .
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian D." <brian at realm3.com>
>> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Passing JAVASCRIPT variables to PHP
>>
>>
>>> Susan hit the nail on the head. She's pointing out why I said it was a
>>> "hack" - if you're not understanding the problem correctly (the
>>> difference between client-side and server-side) then the proposed
>>> solution might be "simple and workable" but it's still wrong.
>>>
>>> More to the point, what exactly are your goals with this code, Paul?
>>> Are you just trying to get the exact time on the client's computer?
>>> Are you just trying to create a timestamp in their timezone?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Susan Shemin <susan_shemin at yahoo.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm watching this discussion with interest since I asked a similar 
>>>> question
>>>> last month (about sending PHP stats from a JS onclick event).  The 
>>>> answer
>>>> that came up was to put a redirect to the link page, run the PHP script 
>>>> on a
>>>> redirect.php page and then send it on to the destination.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've set it up this way and it's working fantastically, but I have tons 
>>>> of
>>>> links and I'm beginning to feel hesitant about sending users to a 
>>>> redirect
>>>> when there's so many harmful redirects out there.  (Of course, not 
>>>> mine...)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just as this question came up here, I was again researching it on the
>>>> internet, and very clearly saw that the crux of the problem is that
>>>> Javascript is client side and PHP server side, meaning the 2 don't mix
>>>> unless in Ajax.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I'm off to brush up on my Ajax and get it working, because except 
>>>> for the
>>>> redirect, I can only see that Ajax will work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Susan
>>>>
>>>>
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