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[PaulCheung]

Hi

 All I am trying to do is transfer the data and time from the client machine 
upto the server. The goal is to create a MySQL record by customer number and 
store both the client time/date and server time/date for each new record 
created .

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian D." <brian at realm3.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Passing JAVASCRIPT variables to PHP


> Susan hit the nail on the head. She's pointing out why I said it was a
> "hack" - if you're not understanding the problem correctly (the
> difference between client-side and server-side) then the proposed
> solution might be "simple and workable" but it's still wrong.
>
> More to the point, what exactly are your goals with this code, Paul?
> Are you just trying to get the exact time on the client's computer?
> Are you just trying to create a timestamp in their timezone?
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Susan Shemin <susan_shemin at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm watching this discussion with interest since I asked a similar 
>> question
>> last month (about sending PHP stats from a JS onclick event).  The answer
>> that came up was to put a redirect to the link page, run the PHP script 
>> on a
>> redirect.php page and then send it on to the destination.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've set it up this way and it's working fantastically, but I have tons 
>> of
>> links and I'm beginning to feel hesitant about sending users to a 
>> redirect
>> when there's so many harmful redirects out there.  (Of course, not 
>> mine...)
>>
>>
>>
>> Just as this question came up here, I was again researching it on the
>> internet, and very clearly saw that the crux of the problem is that
>> Javascript is client side and PHP server side, meaning the 2 don't mix
>> unless in Ajax.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I'm off to brush up on my Ajax and get it working, because except for 
>> the
>> redirect, I can only see that Ajax will work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Susan
>>
>>
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