I am using timezone_menu
function and it works perfectly.
I store the timezone database and show in my web application the date and time in the format that you have configured my client.
My problem is that now I have a client Guatemala, which tells me that your time zone is not the same as the Mexico Center. There is a time zone -6 (Central Standard Time - Center Mexico) but says some time of the year that does not coincide with Guatemala when the center of Mexico.
For example, in Windows, in paragraph time zones, several -6, in the case of my client used Central America instead of Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey. Can anyone help me?
i think you are coming up with a problem because the timezone list you have lacks the granularity you need to store the data you need to.
i would say, normalise each timezone entry, so: make a timezone entry for each possible timezone, store it in a database and render the options from the data base. then it is a simple matter of storing the users' timezone in their settings.
you can then convert from one timezone to another with ease. store all datetimes as a UTC offset. then render them in the user's timezone.
eg, $dt = new DateTime ( NULL, new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
$dt->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone($this->My_timezones_model->get_tz(12)));
controller:
$this->load->model('My_timezones_model');
echo $this->My_timezones_model->get_select(2);
the model:
<?php if ( defined('BASEPATH') === FALSE ) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class My_timezones_model extends CI_Model
{
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->create();
}
function create()
{
if( $this->db->table_exists('my_timezones') == FALSE)
{
$this->db->query( "CREATE TABLE `my_timezones` (
`tz_id` int unsigned not null auto_increment,
`tz_continent` varchar(12) not null comment 'the continent',
`tz_city` varchar(14) not null comment 'the city',
PRIMARY KEY (`tz_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;");
$arr = array();
$identifiers = DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers();
foreach ($identifiers as $identifer)
{
$tmp = explode('/',$identifer);
if ((isset($tmp[1])) && ($tmp[1]))
{
$arr[] = array('tz_continent' => $tmp[0],'tz_city'=>$tmp[1]);
}
}
$this->db->insert_batch('my_timezones',$arr);
}
}
function get_select($selected_tz_id=FALSE)
{
// returns a select
$timezones = $this->db->get('my_timezones')->result();
$select = '<select>';
$optgroup = FALSE;
foreach ($timezones as $timezone)
{
if ($optgroup === FALSE )
{
$select .= "<optgroup label='$timezone->tz_continent'>";
$optgroup = $timezone->tz_continent;
}
if ($timezone->tz_continent != $optgroup)
{
$select .= "</optgroup><optgroup label='$timezone->tz_continent'>";
$optgroup = $timezone->tz_continent;
}
$select .="<option value='$timezone->tz_id'";
if ($timezone->tz_id == $selected_tz_id)
{
$select .= " selected='selected' ";
}
$select .=">$timezone->tz_city</option>";
}
$select .="</optgroup></select>";
return $select;
}
function get_continents()
{
// returns a list of continents
return $this->db->select('tz_continent')->group_by('tz_continent')->order_by('tz_sort_order')->get($this->get('table_name'))->result();
}
function get_tz($id)
{
// input of the tz_id
// returns a string of the timezone in format: Continent/City, eg Australia/Hobart, or NULL if the ID is not found.
$this->db->select("concat(`tz_continent`,'/',`tz_city`) as tz",FALSE)
->from($this->get('table_name'))
->where('tz_id',$id);
$q = $this->db->get();
$r = NULL;
if ( $q->num_rows() == 1 )
{
$r = str_replace(' ','_',$q->first_row()->tz);
}
return $r;
}
}