current time and date?

[goodguy20k]

I had to jump through hoops to get a date and time in Flash itself, but now I need to get the date and time in serverside. Is there a function for this in AS (serverside edition) that will work? (I tried copying my code from client side to server and, as I expected, it failed.)

[Lapo]

You can use the Date object. Just like in Flash.

Example:

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var d = new Date();
trace((d.getMonth()+1)+"/"+d.getDate()+"/"+(1900+d.getYear()));

getMonth returns the month number from 0 to 11 (add 1 to get the actual number)

getYear returns the number of years since 1900

[Virusescu]

Hello Lapo.
Is this the standard implementation? I mean if I create a new AS1 Date object will it have all the methods associated with his respective flash client Date object? Or is this your implementation on server side and you added just a couple of methods?

[Lapo]

The AS 1.0 engine is based on Mozilla Rhino, which is Ecma-262 compliant. So you will find the same implementation.
I'd recommend to check the Flash help for further help on the Date object

[goodguy20k]

That is a pain. Looks like you copied and pasted my code there, Lapo! Back to error finding... Wish me luck!

[Lapo]

[goodguy20k]

My code that I had for client side and tried in serverside:

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                  var today_date:Date = new Date();
                  var date_str:String = ((today_date.getHours() + 1) + ":" + (today_date.getMinutes() + 1) + ":" + (today_date.getSeconds() + 1) + " " + (today_date.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + today_date.getDate() + "-" + today_date.getFullYear());
                  res.mydate = date_str;


[goodguy20k]

Outputs this error:

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2006/03/17 11:14:09.270 - [ WARNING ] [id: 12] (JavascriptExtension.logASError): Error in extension [ VIP_login.as ]: missing ; before statement (VIP_login.as#1121) Line: 167

[goodguy20k]

And the answer is, it doesn't like me specifying the variable type in the same format. Had to remove the ":Date" and ":String" in the first two lines. All working now.

[Lapo]

Yep, that's AS 1.0, not 2.0

[goodguy20k]

And so have I learned. Thank you again, Lapo.