date and time

skdzines

I am using this to get the current day of the week and time.

<?
$today = getdate();
print_r("".$today['weekday']." ".$today['hours'].":".$today['minutes']."");
?>

However, does anyone know of an easy way for it to print the time of the day in standard time as opposed to military time (7:00 PM instead of 19:00)? I also want it to print AM or PM.

Thanks

LordShryku

sure, ditch all of that, and do this instead

echo date("l h:i A");

skdzines

Thank you, LordShryku. Now I'm doing this to break it down into parts:

$time = date("l h:i A");
$timeFormat = explode(":", $time);
$hour = $timeFormat[0];
$minutes = $timeFormat[1];

How do I grab the meridiem AM or PM from the value that date returns? Right now it will be part of the $minutes variable. Is there a way to explode at the ":" and the " " space between the minutes and the meridiem in one shot?

Thanks

pjleonhardt

$weekday = date("l");
$hour = date("h");
$minute = date("i");
$am_pm = date("A");

echo $weekday . " " . $hour . ":" . $minute . " " . $am_pm;

skdzines

That makes sense. Okay so I'm doing this to check for the day of the week and time:

$weekday = date("l"); 
$hour = date("h"); 
$minute = date("i"); 
$meridiem = date("A");

echo $weekday . " " . $hour . ":" . $minute . " " . $meridiem;

//check the day of the week and time to determine if online ordering is available
if($weekday == "Sunday" || $weekday == "Monday" || $weekday == "Tuesday" || $weekday == "Wednesday")
{
	if($hour < 11 && $minute < 0  && $meridiem == "AM" || $hour > 10 && $minute > 45 && $meridiem == "PM")
	{
		echo "Sorry, Online ordering is unavailable at this time.  <br><br>
		Online Ordering hours are: <br>\n
		Sunday - Wednesday, 11:00 AM to 10:45 PM.<br>\n
		Thursday 11:00 AM to 11:15 PM<br>\n
		Friday and Saturday 11:00 AM to 12:45 AM.";
	}
	else
	{
		echo "Hello<br>\n";
	} 
}

if($weekday == "Thursday")
{
	if($hour < 11 && $minute < 0 && $meridiem == "AM" || $hour > 23 && $minute > 15 && $meridiem == "PM")
	{
		echo "Sorry, Online ordering is unavailable at this time.  <br><br>
		Online Ordering hours are: <br>\n
		Sunday - Wednesday, 11:00 AM to 10:45 PM.<br>\n
		Thursday 11:00 AM to 11:15 PM<br>\n
		Friday and Saturday 11:00 AM to 12:45 AM.";
	}
	else
	{
		echo "Hello<br>\n";
	}
}
if($weekday == "Friday" || $weekday == "Saturday")
{
	if($hour < 11 && $minute < 0 && $meridiem == "AM" || $hour > 24 && $minute > 45 && $meridiem == "PM")
	{
		echo "Sorry, Online ordering is unavailable at this time.  <br><br>
		Online Ordering hours are: <br>\n
		Sunday - Wednesday, 11:00 AM to 10:45 PM.<br>\n
		Thursday 11:00 AM to 11:15 PM<br>\n
		Friday and Saturday 11:00 AM to 12:45 AM.";
	}
	else
	{
		echo "Hello<br>\n";
	}
}

Today is Wednesday and it is before 11:00 AM and not later than 10:45 PM. Therefore it should display the message saying that online ordering is unavailable. Instead it keeps displaying "Hello"

Do I have the logic wrong?

Thanks for your help guys.

pjleonhardt

try:

if(($hour < 11 && $minute < 0  && $meridiem == "AM") || ($hour > 10 && $minute > 45 && $meridiem == "PM"))

might not work, but in my mind it is now saying if(Case A || Case 😎

where before it was saying

if (Case A && B && C || D && E && F)

meaning you needed A B E F and either C or D

but...

obviously if it is before 11:00 AM it is not later than 10:45 PM. right?

skdzines

obviously if it is before 11:00 AM it is not later than 10:45 PM. right?

This is true, but it could be the same day and be after 10:45 which would be the cut off time for taking an online order. It is for a pizza shop and we don't want to allow orders to come in before 11:00 AM in the morning or after 10:45 in the evening.

Thanks

pjleonhardt

oi, im slow.. didnt go through the logic of it, thought you were looking for before 11, but not after 10:45.. lol

+1 for tiredness..

howd the code work?

skdzines

I think it is working properly.

Thanks for your help.

skdzines

Actually I take that back, it doesn't seem to be working right.

This is what I have:

$weekday = date("l"); 
$hour = date("h"); 
$minute = date("i"); 
$meridiem = date("A");

//check the day of the week and time to determine if online ordering is available
if($weekday == "Sunday" || $weekday == "Monday" || $weekday == "Tuesday" || $weekday == "Wednesday")
{
	if(($hour > 11 && $minute > 0 && $meridiem == "AM") || ($hour < 10 && $minute < 45 && $meridiem == "PM"))
	{
				echo "Hello<br>\n";
	}
	else
	{
		echo "Sorry, Online ordering is unavailable at this time.  <br><br>
		Online Ordering hours are: <br>\n
		Sunday - Wednesday, 11:00 AM to 10:45 PM.<br>\n
		Thursday 11:00 AM to 11:15 PM<br>\n
		Friday and Saturday 11:00 AM to 12:45 AM.";
	} 
}

But no matter what I have in as the value for the time, it always displays the else. Are the values for the hour and minutes returned as integers or as strings? I also tried changing the '0' in to '00' for the minutes.

Thanks.

skdzines

Now I think I got it. I needed >= and <=

Thanks.