Date

I am wishing to build a registration form(2) using SA2. There will be one for the user to register and one for the Admin to register.
The user will have the registration date hidden form element, a date stamp? The admin will have a WA date picker. Is there a way to have them both show YYYY-MM-DD? I know you can do this in datepicker but how can this be done with a hidden form element so they are both the same?
Thanks

Like so:

<input type="hidden" name="tstamp" id="tstamp" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d', time()); ?>" />

this will print the current server date into the value of the hidden form element.

Thanks Dave. The reason why I haven't got back to you about the gateway is that I have been having big problems and consequent serious delays with SA2 issues. I hope to have it resolved and get the files to you early next week so you can complete the asssignment.
Thanks
Chris

Chris,

no worries and no rush I am booked up to the end of october at the moment

just to clarify, The date picker format selected is yyyy-mm-dd for the admin area. For users, if I use <?php echo date('Y-m-d', time()); ?> won't it put in the time as well? So that they are exactly the same, should I not use <?php echo date('Y-m-d'); ?> ???? I am just guessing but can someone confirm either way? Thanks

No it doesn't work like that, the datepicker fills the value of the form field via javascript with the format yyyy-mm-dd

when using php to fill the form value I always give it the value of time() to create the date from as this will be the "correct" date/time rather than the server time which can be incorrect this is especially true when hosting uk sites on a us server

I use this in conjunction with this code in my application file

/*

Set Timezone

---------------------------------------------------------- 

*/



ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/London');

to set the correct time zone

So <?php echo date('Y-m-d', time()); ?> wil populate the hidden form field with a date formatted like yyyy-mm-dd

Following on from what you have said, can I do this:

Top line of code add this:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Africa/Johannesburg");
?>

For registration date:
<?php echo date('Y-m-d', time()); ?>

For expiry date - exactly 1 year later:
<?php echo(date("Y-m-d h:m:s", mktime(date("h"), date("m"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y") + 1))); ?>

Thanks

without checking the manual that looks about right

Thanks a million Dave