edfou Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Hi guys, I'm having difficulty solving an issue with the time display. When I choose a time from the drop down on my form at http://www.cmfsc.ca/index.php?page=lostandfoundform it writes the time to my table in this format 09:00:00 and even though I choose 9pm in the form drop down menu, it always outputs am when I go to view the records page at http://www.cmfsc.ca/index.php?page=lostandfound_records Note; I don't want to use the 24 hr clock, and I think I should be able to use the 12hr clock with the am or pm suffix. Here is the relevant portion of my form code: <tr> <td>Time lost/found</td> <td> <select name="time"> <? print "<option value=\"\">choose</option>\n"; $startTime = mktime(7, 00, 0, 0, 0, 0); $endTime = mktime(23, 00, 0, 0, 0, 0); for ($i = $startTime; $i <= $endTime; $i = $i + 3600) { $thisTime = date('g:i a', $i); // nothing selected by default $selected = ''; // if the form is submitted. // Check that the posted value is the same as this value // if is the same set it to selected. if(isset($_POST['time']) && $_POST['time'] == $thisTime) $selected = ' selected'; // added the selected attribute here print "<option value=\"$thisTime\"$selected>$thisTime</option>\n"; } ?> </select> </td> </tr> And my query to INSERT into the table is : // Define the query. $query = "INSERT INTO lostandfound (id, lostfound, day, time, description, location, name, contact, date_entered) VALUES (0, '$lostfound', '$day', '$time', '".mysql_real_escape_string($description)."', '".mysql_real_escape_string($location)."', '".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."', '".mysql_real_escape_string($contact)."', NOW())"; And here is the relevant code portion for the records page: "\n\t<td>". $row['description'] . "</td>". "\n\t<td>". $row['location'] . "</td>". "\n\t<td>". $row['day'] . "</td>". "\n\t<td>". date('g:i a',strtotime($row['time'])) . "</td>". "\n\t<td>". $row['name'] . "</td>". "\n\t<td>". $row['contact'] . "</td>". "\n\t<td>". date('M-d', strtotime($row['date_entered'])) . "</td>"; print "</tr>"; Thanks for any help!!! Ed Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbones Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 It isn't a matter of using a 12 hour clock or a 24 hour clock, it is a matter of how to store it in MySQL. It should be stored in a DATETIME column or a TIMESTAMP column, to do so it will need to be in the 24 hour clock configuration of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS . This is the preferred way to STORE the date or time, because it can then be accessed, sorted, added, subtracted, differenced, or any other of the many built in functions that MySQL has for dates and times. The neat thing is that one of those functions is a DATE_FORMAT() function, that will return it in any way that you please.What I am trying to tell you, is that you must separate the logic of storing and displaying. Once you have the data stored in an efficient way, you can display it however you want. Perhaps you would want to change how it is displayed in the future, with properly stored data, it is an easy task. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1457718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 In your dropdown, even thought the times are displayed as 7:00pm, store the option values in hh:ii:ss format EG <option value='19:00:00' selected>7:00pm</option> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1457758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution edfou Posted November 11, 2013 Author Solution Share Posted November 11, 2013 Thanks for your help guys! I worked through that and got that part working. What I did is take the value as posted from the form and changed the format before it gets written to the table (see below). However I have a new challenge and that is simply to capture the current date/time but subtract two hours because my server is in a different timezone. I have added timezone code (see below) but that doesn't seem to help with this. The intent is to populate the POSTED column accurately. Then, eventually I hope to compare the value in the posted column with a later date so that old posts will get deleted automatically after 30 days. Not sure this is possible(!). Thanks! if ( isset ($_POST['submit'])) { date_default_timezone_set("America/Vancouver"); $day = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($_POST['day'])); $time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($_POST['time'])); Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1457813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 What do the posted day and time look like (formats)? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1457818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edfou Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 (edited) I pasted in a recent test record from my table below, however my challenge now is not so much the day or time data but the date_entered data and the expiry_date data (which needs to be set at 30 days later than the date_entered data). I can use NOW() in my INSERT into the table for date_entered but it is 2 hours ahead and I need to fix that. Thanks for following up!!! Ed id lostfound day time description location name contact 127 LOST 02/11/2013 0:00 10/11/2013 23:00 DF DF TESTING-25 AA date_entered expiry_date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Edited November 12, 2013 by edfou Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1457979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiSheng Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 i see that your variables are not properly validated. Lol. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1457984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edfou Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Thanks jcbones and Barand. I'll close and mark this post as Solved and start a new one shortly as the topic has changed.CheersEd Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283757-dropdown-menu-will-not-output-pm-only-am-values-to-table/#findComment-1458201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.