Server time in unreadable format

[Strac72]

I am using this php to write to a text file to show me who has logged in and when:

<?php
$time = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'];
$myusername = $_POST['myusername'];

$data = "$REQUEST_TIME\n";
$data = "$myusername\n";


//open the file and choose the mode
$fh = fopen("logs/login.txt", "a") ;

fwrite($fh, $data);
fwrite($fh, $time);
fclose($fh);

?>

The result I get in my text file is:

paul
1315919200melody
1315919221tracy&graham
1315919232ed&hannah
1315919251

I would feel more successful if the name of the user were to appear on the next line down but I can live with that but I can't make head nor tale of the date.

I want it to say:
paul
13:59
13/09/2011

next user
14:00
13/09/2011 and so on

I feel I have done very well to even get that far really and wouldn't have been able to yesterday. I am frustrated to have reached the extent of my current understanding.

 

If anyone can tell me where I'm going wrong, that would be great.

 

I hope the php isn't too far off, and you can "read between the lines" as it were to see what I'm trying to do.

 

Paul

 

MOD EDIT: code tags added.

 

[Pikachu2000]

When posting code, enclose it within the forum's

 . . . 

BBCode tags.

 

Those are UNIX timestamps. You'll need to use date to convert them into a human-readable format.

[Strac72]

After a few hours and a lot of swearing, I ended up with this:

 

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('GMT+01.00');

$date = date(r);
$myusername = $_POST['myusername'];


$data = "$myusername\n";
$date = "$date\n";

$fh = fopen("logs/login.txt", "a") ;

fwrite($fh, $data);
fwrite($fh, $date);
fclose($fh);

?>

 

Which has worked, apart from the timezone bit, which still reads as an hour behind. Bloomin' BST. It'll be over in a few weeks! Give a dog a bone! 

[Pikachu2000]

The date() function, actually most of the date/time functions in php were some of the most confusing to me at first. It gets easier every time you use them . . .

[Strac72]

Thanks Pikachu. I gleaned that I'd have to use

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

which automatically added the +1 hour I was looking for. I hope it changes back at Halloween or whenever it is.

On the road to perfection, I tried creating a $ that was blank to insert a line break into the text file, I tried

 $blank = '<br />';

and then asking it to

fwrite($fh, $blank);

but that hasn't worked. Don't really know how to term it for a web search. Crikey, my brain aches!

[Pikachu2000]

A linefeed in a text file is typically "\n", <br> is html markup.

[Strac72]

yes, but when I tried that, it actually wrote:

\nuser

date&time

[Pikachu2000]

You need to use it in double quotes, not single quotes. Single quotes make it a string literal.

[Strac72]

"\n\n" Has done the job! Woo hah! I think I'll have a cuppa  Thanks very much for the guidance.

[DavidAM]

You can also use the pre-defined constant PHP_EOL, which contains the proper line ending for the platform PHP is running on.

 

fwrite($fh, PHP_EOL);

 

[Strac72]

I'll look into it tomorrow now. Thanks, David.