phpfastnews

[cropsaius]

Hi,

 

I recently downloaded and installed this script: http://www.phpfastnews.com/  however it does not show the right time on it as my server is in USA and I am in the U.K., how do I modify the php code to show the correct timezone in my country of the U.K.?

[ignace]

How can we know if we even do not see your script?

[laffin]

if your using php date/time functions  date_default_timezone_set

if your using mysql date/time functions:

putenv('TZ=EST5EDT'); 

 

use both if unsure/using both

[cropsaius]

Here is the code in my script in relation to time, I believe using logic this gets the time from my web server at the min which I do not want to do:

 

function addItem( $item ){

// $date = date( "j M Y H:i", time() );

$date = date( "j M Y g:i a", time() );

 

$item['date'] = $date;

$this->news[] = $item;

}

 

 

I read this topic and this is exactly what I want to do: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=279153.0

 

however I do not think this would work by me changing the code above, I am not very good with PHP in all honesty, I know that the script does not use MYSQL.

 

Overall what exact thing would I have to change in the first bit of code out of my script above to change the time to my local time in the U.K.?

[laffin]

than use the date_default_timezone functions.

to just affect that one function U wud do something like

function addItem( $item ){
                $oldtz=date_default_timezone_get();
                date_default_timezone_set  ('Etc/GMT-8');
//		$date = date( "j M Y H:i", time() );
	$date = date( "j M Y g:i a", time() );
                date_default_timezone_set  ($oldtz);

	$item['date'] = $date;
	$this->news[] = $item;
	}

 

but to affect your whole script, place    date_default_timezone_set at the beginning of your script

 

[cropsaius]

Thanks for the reply there, however this bit of code did not work upon me replacing it exactly in the script, here is the full script as I now believe something else is stopping this from working successfully?

 

<?php

/*

phpFastNews 1.0.0

Last update: 02 Sep 2008

 

Skipping the blah-blah-blah I kindly ask you to keep the link back to phpFastNews website. Thanks!

*/

 

include_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/fastnews-conf.php' );

define( 'DATAFILE', dirname(__FILE__) . '/fastnews-data.txt' );

 

$JAVASCRIPT = <<<EOT

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function fn_HideElement( elementName ){

ele = document.getElementById( elementName );

if( ! ele ){

alert( 'cannot find ' + elementName );

return;

}

ele.style.display = "none";

}

function fn_ShowElement( elementName ){

ele = document.getElementById( elementName );

if( ! ele ){

alert( 'cannot find ' + elementName );

return;

}

ele.style.display = "block";

}

</SCRIPT>

EOT;

 

/* PROCESS ACTION */

$action = ( isset($_REQUEST['fn_action']) ) ? $_REQUEST['fn_action'] : '';

if( $action ){

$fn = new fastNews;

// NO ACTION IF NOT LOGGED IN

if( $fn->isLoggedIn() || ($action == 'login') ){

switch( $action ){

case 'login':

$password = $_POST['password'];

if( $fn->checkPassword($password) )

$fn->doLogin();

else {

$fn->displayError( 'Incorrect Password!' );

exit;

}

break;

case 'logout':

$fn->doLogout();

break;

case 'add':

$newItem = $fn->grabData();

$fn->addItem( $newItem );

$fn->save();

break;

case 'update':

$newItem = $fn->grabData();

$itemId = $newItem['id'];

$fn->updateItem( $itemId, $newItem );

$fn->save();

break;

case 'delete':

$itemId = $_REQUEST['id'];

$fn->deleteItem( $itemId );

$fn->save();

break;

}

}

 

/* REDIRECT BACK TO THE REFERRER */

$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

header( "Location: $referrer" );

exit;

}

 

class fastNews {

var $news = array();

 

function fastNews(){

$this->news = array();

$this->load();

}

 

function checkPassword( $pass ){

if( $pass == FN_PASSWORD )

return true;

else

return false;

}

 

function doLogin(){

setcookie( FN_COOKIE_NAME, '1', time() + FN_COOKIE_EXPIRES );

}

 

function doLogout(){

setcookie( FN_COOKIE_NAME, '', time() -1 );

}

 

function isLoggedIn(){

if( isset($_COOKIE[FN_COOKIE_NAME]) && $_COOKIE[FN_COOKIE_NAME] )

return true;

else

return false;

}

 

function grabData(){

$subject = $_POST['subject'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

if( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ){

$subject = stripslashes( $subject );

$message = stripslashes( $message );

}

$itemId = isset($_POST['id']) ? $_POST['id'] : 0;

 

$data = array(

'subject' => $subject,

'message' => $message,

'id' => $itemId,

);

 

return $data;

}

 

function addItem( $item ){

// $date = date( "j M Y H:i", time() );

$date = date( "j M Y g:i a", time() );

 

$item['date'] = $date;

$this->news[] = $item;

}

 

function updateItem( $id, $newItem ){

$item = $this->news[$id - 1];

$item = array_merge( $item, $newItem );

$this->news[ $id - 1 ] = $item;

}

 

function deleteItem( $id ){

array_splice( $this->news, $id - 1, 1 );

}

 

function save(){

// CHECK IF THE DATA FILE EXISTS

if( ! file_exists(DATAFILE) ){

$this->error( 'Datafile missing! Please create a new empty file <B>' . DATAFILE . '</B> and make chmod 666' );

return;

}

// CHECK IF THE DATA FILE IS WRITABLE

if( ! is_writable(DATAFILE) ){

$this->error( 'Datafile is not writable! Please make chmod 666 for the <B>' . DATAFILE . '</B> file.' );

return;

}

 

$this->setToFile( DATAFILE );

}

 

function load(){

// CHECK IF THE DATA FILE EXISTS

if( ! file_exists(DATAFILE) ){

$this->error( 'Datafile missing! Please create a new empty file <B>' . DATAFILE . '</B> and make chmod 666' );

return;

}

 

// LOAD THE DATA FILE

$this->getFromFile( DATAFILE );

}

 

function display(){

global $NEWS_ITEM, $NEWS_LIST, $JAVASCRIPT;

$CODE_URL = FN_CODE_URL;

 

$view = '';

$items = '';

$itemId = count($this->news) + 1;

 

// ORDER IN REVERSE

reset( $this->news );

foreach( array_reverse($this->news) as $n ){

$itemId--;

if( $this->isLoggedIn() ){

$editLinks = <<<EOT

<A HREF="#" ONCLICK="fn_ShowElement('fn-edit-$itemId'); fn_HideElement('fn-view-$itemId'); return false;">Edit</A>

<A HREF="$CODE_URL?fn_action=delete&id=$itemId" ONCLICK="return confirm('Are you sure to delete this news item?')">Delete</A>

EOT;

}

else {

$editLinks = '';

}

 

$formSubject = htmlentities( $n['subject'] );

$replaces = array(

'{SUBJECT}' => $n['subject'],

'{FORM_SUBJECT}' => $formSubject,

'{DATE}' => $n['date'],

'{MESSAGE}' => $n['message'],

'{ITEM_ID}' => $itemId,

'{EDIT_LINKS}' => $editLinks,

'{CODE_URL}' => FN_CODE_URL,

);

$itemDisplay = str_replace( array_keys($replaces), array_values($replaces), $NEWS_ITEM );

$items .= $itemDisplay;

}

 

if( $this->isLoggedIn() ){

$addLink = <<<EOT

<A ID="fn-addBar" HREF="#" ONCLICK="fn_ShowElement('fn-addForm'); fn_HideElement('fn-addBar'); return false;">Add News Item</A>

EOT;

}

else {

$addLink = '';

}

 

if( $this->isLoggedIn() ){

$loginLink = <<<EOT

<A HREF="$CODE_URL?fn_action=logout">Logout</A>

EOT;

}

else {

$loginLink = <<<EOT

<A ID="fn-loginBar" HREF="#" ONCLICK="fn_ShowElement('fn-loginForm'); fn_HideElement('fn-loginBar'); return false;">Login</A>

EOT;

}

 

// ADD UP OUR CREDENTIALS

$copyright = <<<EOT

<DIV STYLE="font-size: 0.75em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;">Powered by <A HREF="http://www.phpfastnews.com">phpFastNews</A> - fast and free news display script</DIV>

EOT;

$items = $items . "\n" . $copyright;

 

$replaces = array(

'{NEWS_ITEMS}' => $items,

'{ADD_LINK}' => $addLink,

'{LOGIN_LINK}' => $loginLink,

'{CODE_URL}' => FN_CODE_URL,

);

$view = str_replace( array_keys($replaces), array_values($replaces), $NEWS_LIST );

 

$view = $JAVASCRIPT . "\n" . $view;

 

return $view;

}

 

function setToFile( $fileName ){

reset( $this->news );

$content = '';

foreach( $this->news as $n ){

if( ! $n )

continue;

$content .= 'ITEM_START' . "\n";

$content .= $n['date'] . "\n";

$content .= $n['subject'] . "\n";

$content .= $n['message'] . "\n";

$content .= 'ITEM_END' . "\n";

}

setFileContent( DATAFILE, $content );

}

 

function getFromFile( $fileName ){

$fileContentArray = file( $fileName );

reset( $fileContentArray );

$lineIndex = 0;

foreach( $fileContentArray as $line ){

$line = trim( $line );

if( ! $line )

continue;

 

if( $line == 'ITEM_END' ){

$this->news[] = $item;

continue;

}

 

if( $line == 'ITEM_START' ){

$item = array();

$lineIndex = 1;

}

else {

// PARSE LINE

switch( $lineIndex ){

case 1:

$key = 'date';

break;

case 2:

$key = 'subject';

break;

default:

$key = 'message';

break;

}

 

if( isset($item[$key]) )

$item[$key] .= $line;

else

$item[$key] = $line;

 

$lineIndex++;

}

}

}

 

function displayError( $msg ){

echo $msg;

/* REDIRECT BACK TO THE REFERRER */

$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

echo <<<EOT

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; URL=$referrer">

EOT;

}

 

function error( $msg ){

echo 'Error: ' . $msg;

}

}

?>

<?php

function _print_r( $thing ){

echo '<PRE>';

print_r( $thing );

echo '</PRE>';

}

 

function setFileContent( $fileName, $content ){

$length = strlen( $content );

$f = fopen( $fileName, 'w' );

$result = fwrite($f, $content, $length);

fclose( $f );

}

?>

 

 

 

[cropsaius]

Also in that code you gave me I replaced the time zone as per this website: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.europe.php with the line of:  Europe/London

[cropsaius]

Can anyone please help me with this?  I would ever so much appericiate it, or I can even pay you to program a php script for me that does a similar thing with working time zone?