Dynamic Expires Meta tag

[Steven]

Hi there,

I have a database with documents that have event dates included. What I need
to do is have the Expires META tag to be one day after that event date.

Can I get the date from the appropriate field in the database and format it
into GMT to add into the header() function?

Cheers

Steven

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Dynamic Expires Meta tag

.oO(Steven)
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>I have a database with documents that have event dates included. What I need
>to do is have the Expires META tag to be one day after that event date.[/color]

You don't need a meta-element, use an Expires header instead.
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>Can I get the date from the appropriate field in the database and format it
>into GMT to add into the header() function?[/color]

Yep. According to RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1) the date has to be in a form like
this to be valid for the Expires header:

Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT

Micha

[Steven]

Re: Dynamic Expires Meta tag

Hi there,

Yes, sorry I meant the expires header. These documents used to be hand coded
and so the expires date was update manually.

What I need now is a way of populating the expires header with data from the
database.

Can this be done???

Cheers

Steven
"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.ne t> wrote in message
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> .oO(Steven)
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> >I have a database with documents that have event dates included. What I[/color][/color]
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> >to do is have the Expires META tag to be one day after that event date.[/color]
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> You don't need a meta-element, use an Expires header instead.
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> >Can I get the date from the appropriate field in the database and format[/color][/color]
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> >into GMT to add into the header() function?[/color]
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> Yep. According to RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1) the date has to be in a form like
> this to be valid for the Expires header:
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> Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT
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> Micha[/color]

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Dynamic Expires Meta tag

.oO(Steven)
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>What I need now is a way of populating the expires header with data from the
>database.
>
>Can this be done???[/color]

Sure, just fetch your date from the database (as Unix timestamp if
possible), format it with date() or strftime() and use the header()
function to create the Expires header.

Micha