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"Web Server (8) time return problem"

Since the rebuild of my site after the crash and burn of freeola webserver 8 a few weeks ago, my java script to display the server time has stopped working.

This is the function which gets the time (some spaces added to get over the 50char post limit):

function displaytime(){
serverdate.setSeconds(serverdate.getSeconds()+1)
var daystring=dayarray[serverdate.getDay()];
var datestring=daystring+", "+montharray[serverdate.getMonth()]+" "+padlength(serverdate.getDate())+", "+serverdate.getFullYear();
var timestring=padlength(serverdate.getHours())+":" +padlength(serverdate.getMinutes())+ ":"+padlength(serverdate.getSeconds())
document.getElementById ("servertime").innerHTML=datestring+" "+timestring
}


I've checked and double checked the coding but it looks identical to the page b.c. (before crash). Is there a global variable/permission which needs to be switched [back?] on to allow the return of the sever time upon request?

Failing this - does anyone have a good script to do this? It must be the server time and not the local pc time.

thanks

JTD

Since the rebuild of my site after the crash and burn of freeola webserver 8 a few weeks ago, my java script to display the server time has stopped working.

This is the function which gets the time (some spaces added to get over the 50char post limit):

function displaytime(){
serverdate.setSeconds(serverdate.getSeconds()+1)
var daystring=dayarray[serverdate.getDay()];
var datestring=daystring+", "+montharray[serverdate.getMonth()]+" "+padlength(serverdate.getDate())+", "+serverdate.getFullYear();
var timestring=padlength(serverdate.getHours())+":" +padlength(serverdate.getMinutes())+ ":"+padlength(serverdate.getSeconds())
document.getElementById ("servertime").innerHTML=datestring+" "+timestring
}


I've checked and double checked the coding but it looks identical to the page b.c. (before crash). Is there a global variable/permission which needs to be switched [back?] on to allow the return of the sever time upon request?

Failing this - does anyone have a good script to do this? It must be the server time and not the local pc time.

thanks

JTD

What is serverdate? Its obviously a Date object, but its not initialised anywhere. I suppose somewhere in the working version its initialised with the server date/time.

Garin,

servertime is a new instance of a date object

Here is the code in full - like I said below this defo worked before the rebuild (I understand what's going on in the script but I didn't write it - it was off a free javascript site):


<script type="text/javascript">
var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday ","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday" ,"Saturday")
var currenttime ='<? echo date("l, F j, Y H:i:s", time())?>'
var montharray=new Array ("January"," February","March","April","May" ," June","July","August","September", "October","November","December")
var serverdate=new Date(currenttime)

function padlength(what){
var output=(what.toString().length==1)? "0"+what : what
return output
}

function displaytime(){
serverdate.setSeconds(serverdate.getSeconds()+1)
var daystring=dayarray[serverdate.getDay()];
var datestring=daystring+", "+montharray[serverdate.getMonth()]+" "+padlength(serverdate.getDate())+", "+serverdate.getFullYear();
var timestring=padlength(serverdate.getHours())+": "+padlength(serverdate.getMinutes())+": "+padlength(serverdate.getSeconds())
document.getElementById("servertime ").innerHTML=datestring+" "+timestring
}

window.onload=function(){
setInterval("displaytime()", 1000)
}

</script>

<b>Server Time:</b> <span id="servertime"></span>

JTD

So is that PHP being executed?

It is within a predominantly php built site but the script is outside of any php coding. The tag takes the servertime element ID (as HTML) and displays what the script returns.

I had a thought (it was bound to happen sometime) and I've tested the code on a throwaway site I never got round to:

here

...which is on freeolaweb1 and it works.



JTD

View the source of the page and see if the php is still there. Maybe short tags are turned off, try