Timer script not working on hosting server

Question

A timer java script is working fine on local server. But when i run it on hosting server it does not intiate the timer.

<script type="text/javascript" >
<?php
    $elapsed=time()-strtotime($_SESSION['starttime']);
    if(((int)$elapsed/60)<(int)$_SESSION['duration'])
    {
        $result=executeQuery("SELECT " .
        " TIME_FORMAT(TIMEDIFF(endtime,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP),'%H') as hour, ".
        " TIME_FORMAT(TIMEDIFF(endtime,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP),'%i') as  min, ".
        " TIME_FORMAT(TIMEDIFF(endtime,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP),'%s') as sec ".
        " FROM studenttest ".
        " WHERE stdid=".$_SESSION['stdid'].
        " AND testid=".$_SESSION['testid'].";");
        if($rslt=mysql_fetch_array($result))
        {
            echo "var hour=".$rslt['hour'].";";
            echo "var min=".$rslt['min'].";";
            echo "var sec=".$rslt['sec'].";";
        } else {
            $_GLOBALS['message']="Try Again";
        }
        closedb();
    } else {
        echo "var sec=01;var min=00;var hour=00;";
    }
?>
</script>

What does not work? Do you get other/wrong output? If that's the case make sure the time on the server is set correctly. — Devator, Apr 27 '12 at 10:17
actually timer does not start when run on hosting server ....? — baljeet, Apr 27 '12 at 11:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '12 at 11:34

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Replace

<?php

With

<?php
session_start();

answered Apr 27 '12 at 11:34

Devator

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '12 at 19:02

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After cleaning up your code more, stack overflow's code highlighting shows that your php output is surrounded in comment tags:

<!-- -->

so the javascript never see's the variables echo'd by PHP. Could this be your problem?

answered Apr 27 '12 at 19:02

TerryProbert

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The presence of the comment tags has no effect upon the execution of the Javascript code. This is done to support browsers that don't know what ` – Apr 27 '12 at 19:50
Ahh, I never knew that! (+1) Thanks for the link @Phoenix – TerryProbert Apr 27 '12 at 20:20

Timer script not working on hosting server

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