Question

because i don’t want to use the NSDATE function of Xcode, i tried to override it with a php script…i found the solution here but it does not work or i can’t get it to work.

this is the code:

 - (NSDate *) CurrentDate
 {
     if ([self hasInternetConnectivity]) // this tests Internet connectivity based off Apple's Reachability sample code
     { 
         NSURL * scriptUrl = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://<yoursite>.com/<the 2 line php script>.php"];
         NSData * data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: scriptUrl];

         if (data! = nil) {
              NSString * tempString = [NSString stringWithUTF8String: [data bytes]];
              NSDate * currDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970: [tempString doubleValue]];
              NSLog (@"String returned from the site is:% @ and date is:% @", tempString, [currDate description]);
              return currDate;
         } else {
              NSLog (@ "nsdata download failed");
              return [NSDate date];
         }
    } else {
        NSLog (@ "InternetConnectivity failed");
        return [NSDate date];
    }
}

Whatever i do it returns errors as in hasInternetConnectivity does not exist in @interface etc..

i just pasted the code into the NAME.m file but it does not want to work..

what i am trying is to get the requested date (php time should return something like 20:10:40 ) in a text field.

its just a string…when someone pushes the button it should get the server time and put it in the text field…

what am i doing wrong ?

Answer 1

This is what i did, it works and it leaks a bit but don’t worry about it its too small:

    NSURL * scriptUrl = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/TIME.php"];
    NSData * data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: scriptUrl];
    serverTime = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
 NSLog(@"servertime is: %@",servertime);

this is a example of the phpfile to keep it simple:

<?php
$servertime = date("H:i:s");
$string = (string) $servertime;
echo $string;
?>