[SOLVED] Help with date()!

[spiritssight]

Hello all,

 

I have a scrpt that does something very simple, it compares the date to a date entered into a form and also one that is in a database, this works the way it should :-)

 

The problem is it display a error for every time it runs one of the date ()

 

error:

Strict Standards: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in /home/dev/www/user-sys/activation_process.php on line 21

 

Strict Standards: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in /home/dev/www/user-sys/activation_process.php on line 22

 

The question is how can I fix this, I don't know what TZ the people are in that create the accounts,  when they create a account it adds a date to a table called activation  which is three days older then the real date and also when they activate their account they have to enter a the date of activation (todays date)  if a TZ is set then how does it compare these right.

 

here is my code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['activate']))
{
include '/home/dev/www/lib/db_config_cr-dev.php';
include '/home/dev/www/lib/db_conn-select.php';

$user_id = $_POST["user_id"];
$activation_code = $_POST["activation_code"];
$activation_date = $_POST["activation_date"];

$query_s = "SELECT * FROM activation WHERE user_id = '$user_id' AND activation_code = '$activation_code' ";
$result_s = mysql_query($query_s) OR die("Sorry". mysql_error());
$record = mysql_fetch_array($result_s);
$count = mysql_affected_rows();

// If result matched $userid and $activation_code, table row must be 1 row
if($count && $activation_date == date("Y-m-d"))
{
$exp_date = $record["expire_date"];
$expiration_date = strtotime($exp_date);
$todays_date = date("Y-m-d");
$today = strtotime($todays_date);

if ($expiration_date > $today)
{ $valid = "is"; } else { $valid = "is not"; }
echo "Your activation ". $valid ." valid!";
}
else
{
echo "Sorry you did not enter vaild infomation on the activation form, please use your browers back button and corect the input and try again!";
}
include '/home/dev/www/lib/db_close.php';
}
?>

 

Any ideas or feed back is grateful

 

Sincerely,

Christopher

[ziv]

http://php.net/date_default_timezone_set