Re: [PHP] timer in PHP

2001-04-11 Thread Plutarck
I'm guessing it's either for a Quiz script or an Auction script. If you want to make it easy on yourself, use a database to store the starting time (when the timer "starts") and what time the test/auction should end. When someome makes a submission, get the time stored in the database and see if

Re: [PHP] timer in PHP

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Lee
there is no sure way, but using cookies/sessions you can make something that will *work* . assign the user a session_id, every time the user makes an entry add a value to the db, session_id = $SessionID next_time = time() + 120 every time you make an entry, check to make sure that next_time <