Question

I would like to get the current Date/Time in actionscript 3, and I want to avoid the Date class since the system time can be easily manipulated by the user.

Can I access a server and get a timestamp?

Is there a better alternative to this method (a simple URL-request)?

Answer 1

Here is how you can do this:

The flash side:

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader()
loader.load(new URLRequest("yourserverpage.php"))
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded)
function onLoaded(evt:Event){
    var date:Date;
    try{
        date = new Date(Number(loader.data));
    }catch(e:Error){
    }

    if(!date){
        //flash couldn't convert the date properly, there was an error
    }
}

And the php side:

<?php 
    header("Content-Type: text/plain");
    print time() * 1000;
?>