[RESOLVED] Get tim featur - were can I get commands

[shifty18]

I have an idear fopr my site. I want the php to look at the system time and if it is between a cirtain time, then it will display a cirtain welcome message. Here is the basic code

include("greatings.php")

if time is >12 display $greetings1
if time > 6 display $greetings2
if time > 9 display $greeings3
if time >00 display $gretings4

so thats the basic code but as im new to php i do not no the command for the get time and if the time is above a cirtian time then display this message. Where can i find this out as all my php info has come from this book i have bought.

thanks

[Weedpacket]

It's not a very good book then, if it doesn't even mention the [man]time[/man] and [man]date[/man] functions. There's other stuff on other pages there, too.

"And later on we'll talk about the 'Where's Wally' function."

"Oh, you're just being facetious," I said.

[shifty18]

oh no its a good book its called "foundation Dreamweaver MX" from "friends of ED". Its nota PHP book just liek the basics of it, setting up apache and going though case study with the frton part of the book going though a Drewamweaver case study of making a site

ok thanks for the links

[shifty18]

ok, I am a newbiew but this time() function has me confused

so I want to display like

Welcome Chris, Why are you up this late when the ime is >23:00
or
Welcome Chris, Why you up this early, when the time is > 7am

that sort of thing so i need to include a page
include("greetings.php") for example for my diff greatings

and in the main page have say for example
if $ime >7 echo $greetings1

now this "int time ( void)" function is confusing me as im guessing it goes in my mainpage for something like

<?
int time($time)

if ($time > 23:00)
{
echo "Welcome $name, $greetings4";
}
?>

[kevinc]

Here's a fairly simple version, I suggest reading through the date function. It's really pretty simple.

Hope this helps.
Kevin.

<?PHP

function Time_Relative_Message() {
	$Current_Hour = date("H");
		if($Current_Hour > 00 && $Current_Hour <= 07) {
			return "Why are you up so early?";
		}
		elseif($Current_Hour > 07 && $Current_Hour <= 10) {
			return "Morning, it's about time you got up.";
		}
		elseif($Current_Hour > 10 && $Current_Hour <= 14) {
			return "Sometime during the day you read this.";
		}
		elseif($Current_Hour > 14 && $Current_Hour <= 18) {
			return "you read in the evening.";
		}
		elseif($Current_Hour > 18 && $Current_Hour <= 00) {
			return "It's night time now. Go to bed.";
		}
}
$Name = "Chris";
echo "Welcome $Name, the time is ".date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A").", ".Time_Relative_Message();
?>

[shifty18]

A very nice example there, thanks alot, it makes so much more sense now i know more about PHP. The List Subscriptions section in the "user CP" is great for finding things later on 😃