Installing an automatic background changer

flashPUNK

Hi, im trying to install a php script that will automatically change the background of my index page each day, depending on which day it is.
this is my code so far. it was taken from a tutorial, but it doesnt seem to be working, even after i have worked with it for a while.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<? 
$today = date("l"); 
print("$today");
_ if($today == "Sunday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/7.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Monday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/6.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Tuesday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/5.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Wednesday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/4.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Thursday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/3.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Friday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/2.gif"; 
_ } 
_ else 
_ { 
____ // Since it is not any of the days above it must be Saturday 
____ $background = "images/1.gif"; 
_ } 
// print("<body background=\"$background\">\n"); 
?> 
<body bgcolor="#666666" background="<?print("$background[$today]");?> " leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

If anyone could tell me where im going wrong, it would be greatly appreciated!

pjleonhardt

Try this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<? 
$today = date("l"); 
print("$today");
 if($today == "Sunday") 
 { 
      $background = "images/7.gif"; 
 } 
 elseif($today == "Monday") 
 { 
      $background = "images/6.gif"; 
 } 
 elseif($today == "Tuesday") 
 { 
      $background = "images/5.gif"; 
 } 
 elseif($today == "Wednesday") 
 { 
      $background = "images/4.gif"; 
 } 
 elseif($today == "Thursday") 
 { 
      $background = "images/3.gif"; 
 } 
 elseif($today == "Friday") 
 { 
      $background = "images/2.gif"; 
 } 
 else 
 { 
      $background = "images/1.gif"; 
 } 
?>
<body background="<? echo $background; ?> " leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

I'm not sure where you got the $background[$today]; from.. there isn't an array in your file..

Im also assuming that youre using the right date syntax too
Edit:

Alternatively you could use the Switch function, which is a little neater since you wont have to use so many if, elseif statements..

i.e.

$today = date("l");

switch($today) {
    case 'Sunday':
         $background = 'images/7.gif';
         break;
   case 'Saturday':
         $background = 'images/6.gif';
         break;

Etc..

flashPUNK

im sorry, that was a muck up
this is what it was supposto be

It is giving me a:
Parse error: parse error in /home/flashpu/public_html/index.php on line 10
Line 10 is :

_ if($today == "Sunday")

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<? 
$today = date("l"); 
print("$today");
_ if($today == "Sunday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/7.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Monday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/6.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Tuesday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/5.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Wednesday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/4.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Thursday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/3.gif"; 
_ } 
_ elseif($today == "Friday") 
_ { 
____ $background = "images/2.gif"; 
_ } 
_ else 
_ { 
____ // Since it is not any of the days above it must be Saturday 
____ $background = "images/1.gif"; 
_ } 
// print("<body background=\"$background\">\n"); 
?> 
<body bgcolor="#666666" background="background=\"$background\" " leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

pjleonhardt

take out all the underscores

flashPUNK

I took your reccomendation and changed it to the case style.. im still getting an error on the line that starts with $today

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<? 

$today_ =_ date ("l" ); 

switch( $today )_{ 
____case_ 'Monday' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/7.gif' ;
_________break; 
___case_ 'Tuesday' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/6.gif' ;
_________break; 
___case_ 'Wednesday ' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/6.gif' ;
_________break; 
___case_ 'Thursday' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/6.gif' ;
_________break; 
___case_ 'Friday' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/6.gif' ;
_________break; 
___case_ 'Saturday' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/6.gif' ;
_________break; 
___case_ 'Sunday' :
_________ $background_ =_ 'images/6.gif' ;
_________break; 
?> 
<body bgcolor="#666666" background="background=\"$background\" " leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

flashPUNK

also, the underscores dont exist in my php file

Gary_King

Originally posted by flashPUNK
also, the underscores dont exist in my php file

Then why do you have the underscores..?

flashPUNK

that is how it placed it in the site.. i dont know why it generated that

flashPUNK

okay, i got the underscores out, and tried it.. it still wont work
here is my code.. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<? 
$today_=_date ("l"); 
switch("$today") {

case_ 'Monday' :
$background_=_'images/7.gif' ;
break;
case_ 'Tuesday' :
$background_=_'images/6.gif' ;
break;
case_ 'Wednesday ' :
$background_= 'images/6.gif' ;
break;
case_ 'Thursday' :
$background_= 'images/6.gif' ;
break;
case_ 'Friday' :
$background_= 'images/6.gif' ;
break;
case_ 'Saturday' :
$background_= 'images/6.gif' ;
break;
case_ 'Sunday' :
$background_= 'images/6.gif' ;
break;
?>

<body bgcolor="#666666" background="background=\"$background\" """" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

It is now giving me a:
Parse error: parse error, expecting T_CASE' orT_DEFAULT' or `'}'' in /home/flashpu/public_html/index.php on line 12

KITTfan2K

try the following:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<head> 
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
</head> 

<?  

$today = date ("l");  

switch("$today") { 

case  'Monday' : 
$background = 'images/7.gif' ; 
break; 
case  'Tuesday' : 
$background = 'images/6.gif' ; 
break; 
case  'Wednesday ' : 
$background = 'images/6.gif' ; 
break; 
case  'Thursday' : 
$background = 'images/6.gif' ; 
break; 
case  'Friday' : 
$background = 'images/6.gif' ; 
break; 
case  'Saturday' : 
$background = 'images/6.gif' ; 
break; 
case  'Sunday' : 
$background = 'images/6.gif' ; 
break; 

echo "<body bgcolor=\"#666666\" background=\"".$background."\" leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">\n";

?>

<more HTML here>

I think that that should work. You;ve got some pretty weird code in your body tag.

flashPUNK

Im still getting an error. This is what i have in the php file:

</head>

<?__ 
$today_ =_ date_ ("l" );__ 
switch( "$today" )_{_ 

case__ 'Monday'_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/7.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 
case__ 'Tuesday'_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/6.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 
case__ 'Wednesday '_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/6.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 
case__ 'Thursday'_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/6.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 
case__ 'Friday'_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/6.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 
case__ 'Saturday'_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/6.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 
case__ 'Sunday'_ :_ 
$background_ =_ 'images/6.gif'_ ;_ 
break;_ 

echo_ "<body bgcolor=\"#666666\" background=\"" .$background ."\" leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">\n" ;

?> 

<body>

Im getting an error on line 9, which is: $today = date_ ("l" );

KITTfan2K

Hi.

your problem is with the underscores ( _ ) that you're getting in your file. you need to delete them.

How are you uploading to the server? Can you upload by FTP? If you can, you should try that, and it should sort your problem.

If you are, then what are you doing that makes the underscores appear in the file?

KITTfan2K

flashPUNK

okay, ive eliminated all of the _'s, i guess it was my fault that I didn't do that earlier, for some reason, dreamweaver created those.

Its still giving me Parse errors through the document: please go to http://www.flashpunk.ca/index.php and see..

KITTfan2K

from http://www.flashpunk.ca/index.php
Parse error: parse error in /home/flashpu/public_html/index.php on line 59

That is actually waaaaay down the page from where I left off. Is it possible for you to attach the complete file to your next post, so that I can take a look at it for you?

KITTfan2K

flashPUNK

its now getting an error on the last "break;" line before the echo...... line

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<?php
$today  =  date  ("l" );
switch( "$today" ) {

case   'Monday'  :
$background  =  'images/7.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Tuesday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Wednesday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Thursday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Friday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Saturday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Sunday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;

echo  "<body bgcolor=\"#666666\" background=\"" .$background ."\" leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">\n" ;

?> 

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle"><table width="400" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
	<tr>
		<td colspan="2">
			<img src="images/fp_01.gif" width="400" height="117" alt="" /></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<a href="http://www.flashpunk.ca/blog/" target="_blank"
				onmouseover="window.status='flashPUNK|BLOG';  return true;"
				onmouseout="window.status='';  return true;">
				<img src="images/fpblog.gif" width="199" height="102" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
		<td>
			<a href="http://www.flashpunk.ca/foto/" target="_blank"
				onmouseover="window.status='flashPUNK|FOTO';  return true;"
				onmouseout="window.status='';  return true;">
				<img src="images/fpfoto.gif" width="201" height="102" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
	</tr>
</table></td>
  </tr>
</table></body></html>

KITTfan2K

I almost didn't notice this one...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>flashPUNK.ca phuck your phashon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<?php
$today  =  date  ("l" );
switch( "$today" ) {

case   'Monday'  :
$background  =  'images/7.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Tuesday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Wednesday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Thursday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Friday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Saturday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;
case   'Sunday'  :
$background  =  'images/6.gif'  ;
break;

}

echo  "<body bgcolor=\"#666666\" background=\"" .$background ."\" leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">\n" ;

?> 

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle"><table width="400" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
	<tr>
		<td colspan="2">
			<img src="images/fp_01.gif" width="400" height="117" alt="" /></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<a href="http://www.flashpunk.ca/blog/" target="_blank"
				onmouseover="window.status='flashPUNK|BLOG';  return true;"
				onmouseout="window.status='';  return true;">
				<img src="images/fpblog.gif" width="199" height="102" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
		<td>
			<a href="http://www.flashpunk.ca/foto/" target="_blank"
				onmouseover="window.status='flashPUNK|FOTO';  return true;"
				onmouseout="window.status='';  return true;">
				<img src="images/fpfoto.gif" width="201" height="102" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
	</tr>
</table></td>
  </tr>
</table></body></html>

You need to have a } curly bracket at the end of your switch statement.

KITTfan2K

flashPUNK

argh! I should have noticed that one!

Alright man, thanks a lot. it worked like a charm!
You are a hero in my book!!

KITTfan2K

Originally posted by flashPUNK
argh! I should have noticed that one!

Alright man, thanks a lot. it worked like a charm!
You are a hero in my book!!

I should have noticed it quite a few posts ago, as well!

KITTfan2K

groovything

You could do the same thing with this:

<? $today = date ("l" ); ?>

<body bgcolor="#666666" background="images/<? echo $today ?>.gif" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">...etc...

Just name your backgroung images "Monday.gif" etc...

pjleonhardt

well you site seems to be working now, So it looks like you got everything sorted out.. And yes, an easier way would have been to simply do what the person above me said, lol