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dealing with codeigniter date helper - El Forum - 11-25-2009

[eluser]basty_dread[/eluser]
Hello Guys. i'm here again to ask for your favor, strategies about my problem with date

this is what i want to do:

I have a registration form when this user click the register button
the system saves all the information that has been entered.

my question is,

how can i save the current date and time of the user on his or her timezone?

plus his/her account is limited, how can i add let say 6 months and save to the database the expiration of his/her account.

i hope you guys can help me..
thank you very much.

dealing with codeigniter date helper - El Forum - 11-26-2009

[eluser]basty_dread[/eluser]
help help...

dealing with codeigniter date helper - El Forum - 11-26-2009

[eluser]Flemming[/eluser]
this will help you get the user's time:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13/how-can-i-determine-a-web-users-time-zone

Once you have that you can look at the MySQL function date_add() to calculate a date 6 months in the future.

Hope that helps you?

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EDIT: scratch that ... I think this may work (please note this is totally untested!) ...

You will need to include jquery.js

In the head of your view:

Code:
&lt; script type="text/javascript" scr="jquery.js" &gt; &lt;/ script &gt;

&lt; script type="text/javascript" &gt;

    function get_user_date()

    {

        var currentTime = new Date()

        var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1

        var day = currentTime.getDate()

        var year = currentTime.getFullYear()

        return day + '-' + month + '-' + year;

    }

    $(document).ready(function() {

      user_date = get_user_date();

      $.post("/your_controller/store_user_time/" + user_date);

    })

&lt;/ script &gt;

your controller:

Code:
function store_user_time($user_date)

  {

      $this->session->set_userdata('user_date',$user_date);

  }

the jQuery $.post calls your controller which stores the date in a CI session.

If it works you can develop it to add in the user's time as well.

Hope it helps you!