[jowie]

Following on from today's show, here's a Chris Moyles Show fraction calculator:

http://jowie.me/moyles/moyles_time.php

(it won't work unless we are between 6.30am and 10am)

Enjoy

:-Joe

[Andy B]

Possibly the most brilliant and useless thing ever. I love crap like this! May even see of it's right at 8.50.

[jowie]

I did a test and it did seem to come out at 2/3 (funnily!)... Unfortunately you cannot cheat and change your computer clock because it uses the server clock

I emailed Chris... Wonder if it's worthy of a mention? Who knows. Let me know if it gets a mention before 7.45!

[DannyBoy]

Following on from today's show, here's a Chris Moyles Show fraction calculator:

http://jowie.me/moyles/moyles_time.php

(it won't work unless we are between 6.30am and 10am)

Enjoy

:-Joe

nice PHP script

[jowie]

:lol: nice PHP script

ta

here's a better URL (why did I make it so long...)

http://jowie.me/moyles/

[Ed Pummelon]

Genius! Hope someone from the show spots it

[jowie]

I just missed 8:50 cos I was in the shower... Did it work?

[Console]

I find it funny that you're using a PHP script to write a single variable in a javascript script for a flash app. Wouldn't a simple line of javascript be easier (and more compatible): -

Code: Select alljavascript:var a=document.title;void(window.setInterval("n=new Date();h=n.getHours();m=n.getMinutes();s=n.getSeconds();d=n.getDay();if(d==0||d>5||h*100+m<630)t=0;else if(h>=10)t=1;else t=(h*3600+m*60+s-23400)/12600;document.title=a+' - '+(t*100)+'%'",1000))

[Ed Pummelon]

I was going to point that out too, but thought it might be a bit obvious...

[jowie]

I find it funny that you're using a PHP script to write a single variable in a javascript script for a flash app. Wouldn't a simple line of javascript be easier (and more compatible)

Probably

But it was just based on my limited knowledge of both PHP and JS... Also it meant that whatever computer you view it from, it will be the correct time even if the computer's time is incorrect. Though I'm just using that as an excuse!

[Munki Bhoy]

Geeks.

[jowie]

and fiercely proud of it...

[Console]

Damn straight.

But it was just based on my limited knowledge of both PHP and JS... Also it meant that whatever computer you view it from, it will be the correct time even if the computer's time is incorrect.

Assuming that your Flash knowledge was not so limited, you could have used that to grab the time from the server directly, from the HTTP headers, which would reduce the time-drag caused by loading the page and the flash app. If you wanted to be really clever, of course, you could even go as far as to grab the time from an NTP server, and check periodically to make sure the time is spot on.

[jowie]

This could all get rather complicated, couldn't it I wasn't aware you could get the time from HTTP headers. Never done that before. Is there drag? When I open the page it's pretty much there straight away.

[Munki Bhoy]

I wasn't complaining about geekery, I'm just glad to be home

(That and I'm crash coursing PHP at the moment for work)

[Console]

I wasn't aware you could get the time from HTTP headers.

Apache, which is the server your site is hosted on, gives out an RFC 2822 formatted time-stamp by default (I think that function can be turned off, but I don't know how), which your Flash app could easily grab to get the time (and at intervals to make sure it's still on track - the computer clock might not be ticking seconds correctly). This would also make sure that no-one has cleverly rewritten the time-stamp on the page to make the Flash app give out an incorrect progression percentage.

Never done that before. Is there drag? When I open the page it's pretty much there straight away.

There will be drag, especially the first time.

[jowie]

So how does one pass an HTML header into Flash? I've not heard of that one before. Only way I could think of doing it is to get Flash to do a URLRequest for the page it was sitting in... Effectively requesting the same page twice...

[Console]

Do the headers not get parsed into some global parameter? If not, can URLRequest read raw headers? You wouldn't have to request the same page - you could request a blank page, or even a non-existent page. In fact, it would be a good idea to just do a HEAD request (as opposed to GET), assuming that you can do that with Flash.

[Andy B]

Does this not constitute a private conversation? Certainly shouldn't be in general.

Hehehe.

[Yudster]

My god this is even worse than the thread where everyone is arguing with the trolls........

[jowie]

Does this not constitute a private conversation? Certainly shouldn't be in general.

Well it did start as an innocent little app that I created for the show

http://jowie.me/moyles/

I'm happy to carry the rest on privately...

[Munki Bhoy]

Aww, can we not have a "Console teaches Web Development" thread then?!

[Bonanzoid]

Ok, so as much as this little device is clever, has the human brain voided itself of any validity?

[jowie]

hopefully not. I'm sure there are other worthy pursuits for brains

[DannyBoy]

Hey Jowie, Ask Aled to iFrame your app onto the Chris Moyles Show Home page