PHP - Time Duration help

[aussiewarrior]

Can somebody help me ASAP withe the following:

When a user joins my site they have 24hrs to bid on players. How can I code so that the bid section only stats active for 24hrs then disappears.

Any help would be great.

Cheers

[DarkBlood]

Well, PHP counts time in seconds usually...

and since 3600 seconds equals one hour... you can probably figure out how the script should work from that.

[themoose]

It would be a CRON Job, not just PHP.

[Tree]

No, not necessarily.


$inital_time = whatever the time is now;
if($inital_time-(3600*24) >= 0)
{
not active
}
else
{
active
}

To find out the time now, create a blank PHP file and just have this statement "echo time();" without the quotes.

[aussiewarrior]

No, not necessarily.


$inital_time = whatever the time is now;
if($inital_time-(3600*24) >= 0)
{
not active
}
else
{
active
}

To find out the time now, create a blank PHP file and just have this statement "echo time();" without the quotes.

with initial time does that have to be in seconds???
Also do you need to add a date there so that it knows when it is past the 24hr mark?

[stuffradio]

Yes, cron jobs would be the best for this type of thing

[Tree]

When a user signs up, put the exact date and time in the database. Use an if statement to see if 24 hours has gone by.