PHP V4 Misc API Reference for Realtime Apps

The methods on this page are utility methods that don't fit into other categories.

Time

Description

This function will return a 17 digit precision Unix epoch.

The timetoken is constructed using the following algorithm:

timetoken = (Unix epoch time in seconds) * 10000000

Example of creating a timetoken for a specific time and date

08/19/2013 @ 9:20pm in UTC = 1376961606
timetoken = 1376961606 * 10000000
timetoken = 13769616060000000

Method(s)

To fetch Time you can use the following method(s) in PHP V4 SDK:

1. $pubnub->time()->sync();
   

   This method doesn't take any argument.

Basic Usage

Get PubNub Timetoken

$result = $pubnub->time()
              ->sync();

print_r($result);

Response

Method	Type	Description
getTimetoken()	Integer	Returns a date representation of current timetoken.