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servertime: Digital text clock showing the server time

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This class implements a digital text clock which shows the current server time or server time plus/minus an offset of hours. If configured with alarm times it makes a alarm clock and may announce web page specific events. Ie a sports page may announce the beginning of a match.

Javascript has to be enabled in the browser to let the class work.

The class generates output in English or in German, with support for either long or short month names.

It works with the browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla and Opera.

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servertime class readme.txt doc file Peter Klauer, September 7 2003 knito@knito.de Changes: October, 26 2003: Optional starting within the body tag per onload="clock()" (see Synchronisation) October, 3 2003: New Feature $offset_hours. Idea from Martin Link October, 1 2003: New Language "french" from Eric Mathieu September, 25 2003: New switch $ucaseampm for uppercase or lowercase am/pm. New Feature: Alarm clock times and output of alarm messages using a user defined php page. New vars: $alarmon, $alarmdate, $alarm, $onalarm, $alarmpage. Ideas and code contributions from Paul Hargreaves. September, 10 2003: New Switches "military" and "showdate" from Paul Hargreaves September, 11 2003: New Section "Synchronisation" Themes covered by this document: Functions in the class Variables in the class Example Synchronisation This class is called "servertime" and shows approximately the time of the server from which it had started. If $offset_hours is defined it will display the time and date plus $offset_hours. Javascript has to be enabled to have the clock work. The time is shown in a digital text clock which is situated in a <div> tag. The servers time is not shown in realtime: Until the time is taken over into the page and the javascript begins to run a cerain time span passes. Afterwards the clock runs with local speed. Please refer to the last section "Synchronisation". The feature "alarmtimes" allows the class to announce events for certain days and times. For example a sports page may announce a match that takes place at this moment (or in a few moments). You can test some of the variable settings for servertime on this page: http://www.ingoknito.de/scripts/servertime/index.php ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** Functions in the class servertime: ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** InstallClockHead() InstallClock() InstallClockBody() Help() ******************************************************************************** function servertime::InstallClockHead() ******************************************************************************** This function is to be placed into the <head> section of the page. It installes the array of month names, the initial time value "digital" which is loaded with the current time from the server and a very common javascript function named "writeLayer" which does the writing of the clocks content into the page. I fount this function in so many places that I can not tell you who has it done. On http://beta.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_20631686.html you fill find notice of a similar writeLayer function, but I do not have it from there and can not tell any more where I found it. I worked it over using Mozilla's Javascript Console until it did not show any more warnings. The clock will not make any output to the console if correctly installed. The following class variables cause installclockhead() to do something: language shorthmonth showdate onalarm alarmon offset_hours The following class variable is set to true when installclockhead() has run: ok_head ******************************************************************************** function servertime::InstallClock() ******************************************************************************** This function is to be called in the place where the clock shall be displayed. It must be placed after installclockhead() and before installclockbody(). The following class variables cause InstallClock() to do something: divclass divstyle divtag divid title ok_head The following class variable is set to true when installclockhead() has run: ok_clock ******************************************************************************** function servertime::InstallClockBody() ******************************************************************************** This function is to be placed near the very end of the page. It installes the javascript function "clock()" and the first call to this function. One of the improvements of this class facing the old script is that there is no need to put a kick starter "onload='clock()'" into the <body> tag. The following class variables cause installclockbody() to do something: language military showdate ok_head ok_clock alarm alarmon onalarm alarmdate ucaseampm ******************************************************************************** function servertime::Help() ******************************************************************************** This is just a little extra function giving a short instruction how to use this clase in case this readme.txt is lost. ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** Variables in the class ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** divid string Holds the default id name of the clock tag. 'Pendule' is the default id name. divstyle string Holds the default style string for the clock tag. 'position:absolute;' is default for making NS 4.7 work. I think this is deprecated and could be killed with a ''. As a matter of fact the clock will overwrite the next following line in some browsers if this default value is kept. But I am not yet ready to drop NS 4.7 out of the scope of this class. divtag string Holds the clock's tag "species". 'div' is default, other possibility: 'span'. divclass string Holds a classname for the divtag. The class must be defined in an external style sheet or in a <style> section in the <head> of the page. '' is default: an empty string. title string This is a piece of text which precedes the time sting. 'Serverzeit: ' is the default value. You can put anything there. My favorite: an empty string. language string Holds the language for the date format and the month names. 'german' is the default value. Other languages are 'english' and 'french'. shortmonth bool If set to true, the month names will show up only 3 chars long. If set to false, the whole month names will be displayed. False is the default value. military bool If set to true, the time will be displayed in 24h format. If false it will be the 12h format. If the language is not "german" "am" or "pm" will be shown when in 12h standard format. True is the default value. showdate bool If true then day, month and year are shown. No date is shown when false. Default is true. ucaseampm bool Uppercase am/pm? Default is TRUE. alarm array Array of time values in military (24h) format, with or without date part. When the date part is included, the format string is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm" The basic format for entries is: $st->alarm['HH:mm'] = 'Message to be shown'; Example: with date part(alarmdate = true) $st->alarm["2003-09-19 01:25"] = "1st+alarm"; without date part (alarmdate = false) $st->alarm["01:25"] = "1st+alarm"; alarmdate bool Hint for the class, telling if the array "alarm" contains date parts. Default value is FALSE. alarmon bool The class tries to show the alarms. Default is FALSE. onalarm string Name of a javascript alarm function. Default is the function of the class "doAlarm", but any other javascript function defined outside of this class can be given. alarmpage string Name of a page which will output the alarm message and that will be loaded from doAlarm(). Default: "alarm.php". If alarmon is TRUE and onalarm is "doAlarm" then the presence of the page "alarmpage" is checked and the script will be terminated if it is not there. alarmpagew integer Width of the alarmpage in pixel. Default is 200. alarmpageh integer Height of the alarmpage in pixel. Default is 200. alarmpageopts string Additional options. Default: "scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes" offset_hours integer This var changes the hours of the displayed date and time. Set this to any reasonable integer value, positive or negative. The date part will be changed if necessary. Default value is 0. bodyonload bool Must be set to true ONLY WHEN the javascript function clock() was called in the body tag of the page per <body onload="clock()">. Then the calling of clock() per InstallClockBody() is surpressed. Error 1: Clock runs at double speed: Programmer forgot to set this var to true after using <body onload="clock()"> Error 2: Clock does not run at all: Programmer forgot to use <body onload="clock()"> after setting this var to true. Default value: False ok_head bool Do not touch it. It is an attempt to make the installation of the class more easy. ok_clock bool Do not touch it. It is an attempt to make the installation of the class more easy. ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** Example: ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Test Servertime Klasse</title> <?php include 'inc_servertime.php'; $st = new servertime; $st->InstallClockHead(); ?> </head> <body> <? $st->InstallClock(); $st->InstallClockBody(); ?> </body> </html> ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** Synchronisation: ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** At first Servertime gets the time from the server. Then Javascript gets startet after the whole web page has loaded. There may be some delay until the clock really begins to run. When finally the clock runs, it runs at the speed of the computer of the surfer. Mostly the workstations wish to make up the lost time and do even better than the server does. They perform up to 5 minutes per hour better. To have workstations the right server time it is a good idea, to have them refresh the page every some minutes (here it's two minutes) with <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120" /> to synchronize server time and local javascript. The line <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120" /> is to be placed into the <head> section of the page. Please note that if the page reloads there may be a jumping effect that may disturb the users pleasure reading your page. To achieve faster starting times until the clock begins to run it is possible to force the starting of the clock per <body onload="clock()">. Then the class has to be told about this fact because the clock will run at double speed if not. Here the example using the <body onload="clock()">: ... <body onload="clock()"> <? $st->bodyonload = true; $st->InstallClock(); ...

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Plain text file alarm.php Aux. Default alarm page called by "doAlarm()"
Plain text file inc_servertime.php Class The main class file
Accessible without login Plain text file liesmich.txt Doc. Dokumentationsdatei in Deutsch
Accessible without login Plain text file readme.txt Doc. Doc file in English
Accessible without login Plain text file test_servertime.php Example An example

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