Date script

DaveFA

I'm mostly an ASP developer, and I've been stuck with a php project. I've just started picking up on php a few days ago, so I apologize that my question is pretty elementary. Basically, I want to convert a javascript calendar to php. Here's the code for the javascript calendar:

I know, simple. Yeah, simple for me if it was ASP or ASP.NET, but no, alas it's PHP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Simon_Hartley

Is this what you are after?

<?php
$dayofweek = date(l);

switch ($dayofweek)
{
case Monday : echo "Today is Monday. Information for Monday goes here"; break;
case Tuesday : echo "Today is Tuesday. Information for Tuesday goes here"; break;
case Wednesday : echo "Today is Wednesday. Information for Wednesday goes here"; break;
case Thursday : echo "Today is Thursday. Information for Thursday goes here"; break;
case Friday : echo "Today is Friday. Information for Friday goes here"; break;
case Saturday : echo "Today is Saturday. Information for Saturday goes here"; break;
case Sunday : echo "Today is Sunday. Information for Sunday goes here"; break;
default : echo "Oops Unless someone has added a new day to the week you should never see this message";
}

NB Check the manual for info about the date() function http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

DaveFA

Aha! That's exactly it. Hmm. I was going about it the wrong way. I was thinking of doing it as a conditional (if). The case switch is much better.

Thanks much!!!!!!

Simon_Hartley

Glad it works.

The switch statement will probably be more efficient and easier to read in this case.