How to expire a PHP script... Please Help.

[thomas_smith]

Hi!

 

I am trying to create a trial of my php script for 7 days.

 

What php code can I use so that in 7 days the user will be directed to my payment page.

 

I know that there already is code that will expire the script on a certain day.

 

Well looking forward to your responses.

 

thomas

[oni-kun]

I'm not aware of a method without using an encoding software, such as Zend or CodeCop. If you want to risk the (albeit minute) possibility of them cracking your code, you can encode it in base64 (base64_encode, base64_decode (including the 'expiry date') and use eval.

 

$code = "BBCCAA44FF[...]"; //whatever you encoded with base64_encode()
eval(base64_decode($code)); //Run the encoded code, including expiry section

[thomas_smith]

I'm not aware of a method without using an encoding software, such as Zend or CodeCop. If you want to risk the (albeit minute) possibility of them cracking your code, you can encode it in base64 (base64_encode, base64_decode (including the 'expiry date') and use eval.

 

$code = "BBCCAA44FF[...]"; //whatever you encoded with base64_encode()
eval(base64_decode($code)); //Run the encoded code, including expiry section

 

Ya right now I am using SourceCop and had little to no response from them so I had to look around.

 

They posted something like this:

 

if(date("Y-m-d")>="2005-11-11"){
header("Location: error.php");
exit();
}

 

Hope this helps...

 

thomas

[oni-kun]

You can use this code, sourcecop encodes it right? Then it should expire at the date you specify. You may want to replace date() with $date='xx/yy/zz'.. if you wish to test if your code works (on the odd case your expiry does not function, to be safe)

[thomas_smith]

You can use this code, sourcecop encodes it right? Then it should expire at the date you specify. You may want to replace date() with $date='xx/yy/zz'.. if you wish to test if your code works (on the odd case your expiry does not function, to be safe)

 

any way i can expire it in 7 days?

[oni-kun]

There's no way to tell it to expire in 7 days, unless you enter the current date into an SQL database, and base the activated date on that. If you don't it'll just keep upping date() one day each time it's executed.