JavaScript Forum

**sydcomebak** · 06-09-2005, 05:40 PM

Code:

<html>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#C0C0C0" vlink="#C0C0C0" link="#C0C0C0">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;URL=2005-06june.htm">
<a href="2005-06june.htm">click here</a>.<br><br>
</body></html>

Is there a command to get the current month and year, and then use those values in the html?

I'd like for this autoforwarder to not need to be updated every month.

-Dave in IL

**sydcomebak** · 06:30 PM

So far so good, now all I need is to somehow make the link the same as the alert. Help?

-Dave in IL

Code:

<html>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#C0C0C0" vlink="#C0C0C0" link="#C0C0C0" onload="showDate()";>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=2005-06june.htm">
<a href="2005-06june.htm">click here</a>.<br><br>
</body>

<script type="text/javascript">
function showDate(){
var d=new Date()
var monthname=new Array(
"january",
"february",
"march",
"april",
"may",
"june",
"july",
"august",
"september",
"october",
"november",
"december")

month = d.getMonth()+1;
if (month <= 9) {month='0'+month}



alert(d.getFullYear() + '-' + month + monthname[month-1] + '.htm');


}
</script>



</html>

**Phaedrus** · 06-09-2005, 07:29 PM

I think something like this is what you're looking for:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<script>
	function showDate(){
	var d=new Date()
	var monthname=new Array(
	"january",
	"february",
	"march",
	"april",
	"may",
	"june",
	"july",
	"august",
	"september",
	"october",
	"november",
	"december")
	
	month = d.getMonth()+1;
	if (month <= 9) {month='0'+month}
	
	url = d.getFullYear() + '-' + month + monthname[month-1] + '.htm';
	window.location = url;
	}

</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#C0C0C0" vlink="#C0C0C0" link="#C0C0C0">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=2005-06june.htm">
<a href="#" onclick="showDate();">click here</a>.<br><br>
</body>


</html>

**chrishirst** · 06-10-2005, 03:49 AM

do be aware that this would get the time and date for the client browser, which may or may not be the same time as the server.

So assuming the page in the target url is auto generated by the server it may not even exist.