[Resolved] Checking to see if varuables value is between two sets of dates?

chriswheat

Hello,

I want to check if date is between Fri 4:00pm Sun 11:59pm
and if so assign $closed = "yes";

$day = date("D");
$hour = date("h:ia");
$time = "$day $hour";
// $time would return for example: Wed 11:20am

any ideas on how to do an if statement to detirmine if the day/time is between Fri 4:00pm and Sun 11:59pm?

Many thanks
Chris

onyx


function atweekend()
{
$day = date("w"); //this will give the day in 0-6 format ( Sun - Sat)
$hour = date("G"); 

//This format is much easier to manipulate


if($day > 4)
{
if(($day == 5 && $hour < 16)) //friday
{
return false;
}
return true;
}

return false;
}

chriswheat

I have not worked with functions so how would I
do an if true
print "weekend text";

else
print "weekday text";

Thanks
Chris

onyx


if(atweekend())
{
print "weekend";
}
else
{
print "Weekday";
}

chriswheat

I was close.... THANK YOU!

One question since sunday returns a value of 0
and with the if statements saying >3 will a 0 fall into the true?

thanks

onyx

A very good point.

Easily fix it by:

$day = date("w"); //this will give the day in 0-6 format ( Sun -Sat) 
$hour = date("G"); 

if($day > 4 || $day == 0) 
{ 
if(($day == 5 && $hour < 16)) //friday 
{ 
return false; 
} 
return true; 
} 

return false; 
}

Sorry about that. Just proves you shouldn't write stuff on the fly and not test it first 🙂

chriswheat

Thank you.

in the code

if($day > 3 || $day == 0)

does the || mean or ?

Also if
sunday = 0
monday =1
tuesday = 2
wednesday = 3
thursday = 4
friday = 5
saturday = 6

should the code be
if($day > 4 || $day == 0)

{

if(($day == 5 && $hour < 16)) //friday
{

In otherwords if day is greater than thursday return true
but if day is friday and hour is less than 16 return false ?

Again sorry for all the questions just trying to fully understand.
(who knows may help with other scripting I try to attempt
😉 )

Thanks
Chris

onyx

Yes I think I have assumed 0 was monday even though I knew it was in fact sunday.

I have edited the code.

|| is or.

Probably a sign of not consuming dinner and it being 21:15

chriswheat

Many thanks!!

i learned 3 new things from this one!

Chris

😃

onyx

Well like any good teacher I could claim I put the mistakes in on purpose in order to aid your learning 🙂