Timestamp troubles

Help!

[freerange]

I'm using
//POST time
$time=time();

//Change the 0 if your server is located at a different GMT time
$time=($time+(0*3600));
$time=$time*1000;

which is producing
<input type="hidden" name="TimeStamp" value="1.231705102E+12">

How do I get it to produce an integer value instead?

[PokeTech]

time() produces a timestamp obviously. Here's an example of a timestamp from around when this post was made: 1231714831.

With the date() function you can get the month, day, hour, min, sec.

example:

$time = time();
$date = date("l F d, Y, h:i A",$time);

that returns something like this: Sunday November 30, 2008, 03:50 PM

Is that what you mean?

[janharders]

it is producing an integer-value, just a very big one because you're converting it to milliseconds with

$time=$time*1000;

[mcavic]

In this particular example, instead of:
$time=$time*1000;

You can do:
$time .= "000"

That will turn it into a string for the purpose of passing it to the html code. But then when the form is posted, it'll probably be turned back into an integer, which will be more than 32 bits, and it might be an overflow depending on the language and what it's doing with it.

[mcavic]

If it's your own PHP code that's handling the form submission, then you shouldn't need the 000 at all.

[freerange]

Thanks for your help!

I'm now using
//POST time
$time=time();

//Change the 0 if your server is located at a different GMT time
$time=($time+(0*3600));
$time= $time."000";

and it works. <does happy dance>