Looking for a script that will change website headers based on date

Justin_Diamond

Hi and Good Morning,

I have been looking around and have not really had too much luck looking for a script that will do the following.

On my website I would like to have my image headers of the site change for specific dates.

My header is a 599px x 86 pixel image and on dates like today for instance (14/feb) I would like the header to change to a valentines themed header. The same for other important dates.

Does anyone know of such a script?

Thanks a lot
Justin

Kudose

You could do something like this:

//make your index page
<html><body>
<?
include('header.php');
?>
</body></html>

//start header page
<?
$today = date("m.d.y"); 

if ($date = '02.14.2004'){

//insert valentines day header here

} else {

//insert regular header here

}
?>

There you have it.

Justin_Diamond

Wow! thats almost too easy 🙂 Thanks a lot!

So the

if ($date = '02.14.2004'){ 

//insert valentines day header here

can have any number of if's here. Is that correct?

Thanks again 🙂
Justin

Kudose

Yes. It can be changed to any date as long as it follows that format.

Go to php.net and use the search bar up in the right hand corner. Search for date under functions. Scroll to the middle. There it will tell you how to format the time.

The way you copied from the example I gave you will return a value of ::

02.14.2004

If you echoed $today

Your very welcome by the way, feels good to be able to help now instead of be helped.

🙂

Justin_Diamond

Hi Kudose,

I am getting parse errors when I use this line:

//insert valentines day header here 
<h1 id="header"><a href="/" title="logo links to home page" id="logo"><img src="./images/isthatso_lofi.gif" width="201" height="40" border="0" /></a></h1>

As you probably can tell this is all a little new to me (knee deep learning at the moment).

Could you possibly tell me what I need to change to the above header to get it working correctly?

I'm sorry if I am a pain 🙂

Justin

Kudose

Try:


<? 
$today = date("m.d.y");  

if ($today= '02.14.2004'){ 

//insert valentines day header here 
<a href='#'><img src='images/isthatso_lofi.gif' width='201' height='40' border='0'></a>

} else { 

<img src='images/regular.jpg'>
} 
?>

You dont need all the slashes in that or the dots. That is just HTML in that section. Plus you dont need the <h1> is your not using text in it. Just an image like you coded.

ucbones

<?php
if (date("m.d.y") = '02.14.2004'){  

//insert valentines day header here 
?>
<a href='#'><img src='images/isthatso_lofi.gif' width='201' height='40' border='0'></a> 
<?php
}
else {  

?>
<img src='images/regular.jpg'> 
<?php
}  

?>

surely that would be better...