Personalize Time of Day

sfmnetsys

I'm trying to write a script whereby the greeting changes based on the time of day.

<?php
if (time() > 1800){
echo "Good evening";
}else if (time() > 2400)
echo "Good morning";
else if (time () >1200)
echo "Good afternoon";
{
echo"";
}
?>

I've changed the time on my computer and the greeting does not change.

Any thoughts?

interactive

ya php is server side therefor in order for the date to change you would have to change the server's date good luck!

sfmnetsys

Thanks, but I am running iis and php on my desktop for development. The time on my desktop would be the time php would use.

interactive

ahh ok hmm somethings wrong then :-P

Anon

Well, look at the times Steve's comparing against. time() produces Unix timestamps - seconds since the epoch 1970 Jan 1 00:00:00.

In other words, he's comparing

1800 == 1970 Jan 1 01:30:00
2400 == 1970 Jan 1 01:40:00
1200 == 1970 Jan 1 01:20:00

And it's no wonder he's not seeing any difference.

instead of time(), use date('hi').

if (date('hi') > 1800){

Less expensive of course would be

$now=date('hi');
if($now>1800){
...

Anon

Finger slipped on the shift key:

date('Hi')