time

[sovtek]

I have a form with a dropdown list where a user enters a time. I also have a variable which is a price taken from a database based upon other criteria in the form. I need to multiply the price by 0.20 or 20% based upon the time of day. Right now the value for time is in 4 digits and on 24 hour format (ie 2300 = 11:00PM). If the time is between 2100 and 0700 the 20% is added.
Can anyone point me in the right direction.
Tanks

[khjart]

Something like this?

$price = 12;
if($time > 2100 && $time < 0700){
$newprice = $price * 1.20;
}

[sovtek]

He he guess my newby-ness was really showing there. Tanks will try it out now at home.

Thanks a million

[khjart]

I'm sorry. That won't work. What an idiot I am. The time will never be more than 2100 and less than 0700 at the same time ^_
If I'm not going wrong again, this will work

$price = 12;
if(!($time < 2100 && $time > 0700)){
$newprice = $price * 1.20;
}

[sovtek]

I swear the following was working until I loaded it up to website.
Now if 0500 or 0600 is selected then it doesn't do the multiplication.
Tearing my hair out. I'm not sure what changed.

$enter_time = ($_POST["hour"]);
$enter_time .= ($_POST["minute"]);

<?php if ((int)$enter_time >= 0700 && (int)$enter_time <= 2100) {
					 echo $total;
				} else {
				echo $total * 1.2;
}
?>

[TheDefender]

How is your hour being passed? (With or without the leading 0's) Just out of curiosity...

[sovtek]

Originally posted by TheDefender
How is your hour being passed? (With or without the leading 0's) Just out of curiosity...

This is the form $enter_time is passed from:

<select name="hour" class="textb"  

      style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" tabindex=1>
                <option value="">hour</option>
				<option value="00">00</option>
                <option value="01">01</option>
                <option value="02">02</option>
				<option value="03">03</option>
				<option value="04">04</option>
				<option value="05">05</option>
				<option value="06">06</option>
				<option value="07">07</option>
				<option value="08">08</option>
				<option value="09">09</option>
				<option value="10">10</option>
				<option value="11">11</option>
				<option value="12">12</option>
				<option value="13">13</option>
				<option value="14">14</option>
				<option value="15">15</option>
				<option value="16">16</option>
				<option value="17">17</option>
				<option value="18">18</option>
				<option value="19">19</option>
				<option value="20">20</option>
				<option value="21">21</option>
				<option value="22">22</option>
				<option value="23">23</option>
                </select>
:
												                <select name="minute" class="textb"  

      style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" tabindex=1>
                <option value="">mins</option>
                <option value="00">00</option>
                <option value="05">05</option>
				<option value="10">10</option>
				<option value="15">15</option>
				<option value="20">20</option>
				<option value="25">25</option>
				<option value="30">30</option>
				<option value="35">35</option>
				<option value="40">40</option>
				<option value="45">45</option>
				<option value="50">50</option>
				<option value="55">55</option>
                                                                </select> hh:mm            

[TheDefender]

Rewrote somethings to use the strtotime to create UNIX Timestamps to make the comparisons (which may be one extra step, but the comparison works better in my opinion, since you don't have to account for the leading 0's in the comparisons - which is where I believe your problem is stemming from), and it worked for me. (Of course, what you had worked for me too, so I would suggest you echo your $_POST variables to make sure they are correct...) This also gives you some flexibility to change the start and end times without it being hardcoded in your comparison...

Also, keep in mind, this doesn't account for thos times when someone may forget to set an hour and minute, so you need to do some error-checking on empty hour and minute variables in your POST array.

<?
$_POST['hour'] = "05";
$_POST['minute'] = "45";
$enter_time = strtotime($_POST['hour'].$_POST['minute']);

$start_time = strtotime("0700");
$end_time = strtotime("2100");

$total = 100.00;

if ((int)$enter_time >= $start_time && (int)$enter_time <= $end_time) {
  echo $total;
} else {
  echo ($total * 1.2);
}
?>

[sovtek]

Originally posted by TheDefender
Rewrote somethings to use the strtotime to create UNIX Timestamps to make the comparisons (which may be one extra step, but the comparison works better in my opinion, since you don't have to account for the leading 0's in the comparisons - which is where I believe your problem is stemming from), and it worked for me. (Of course, what you had worked for me too, so I would suggest you echo your $_POST variables to make sure they are correct...) This also gives you some flexibility to change the start and end times without it being hardcoded in your comparison...

Also, keep in mind, this doesn't account for thos times when someone may forget to set an hour and minute, so you need to do some error-checking on empty hour and minute variables in your POST array.

<?
$_POST['hour'] = "05";
$_POST['minute'] = "45";
$enter_time = strtotime($_POST['hour'].$_POST['minute']);

$start_time = strtotime("0700");
$end_time = strtotime("2100");

$total = 100.00;

if ((int)$enter_time >= $start_time && (int)$enter_time <= $end_time) {
  echo $total;
} else {
  echo ($total * 1.2);
}
?>

[/B]

I didn't use the strtotime as it doesn't work quite right with my date format.
Basically what I did to resolve the problem was remove the leading "0" from 0700.
Ending up looking like this:

<?php
if ((int)$enter_time >= 700 && (int)$enter_time <=2100) {
echo $total;
} else {
echo ($total * 1.2);
}
?>

Sorry took so long to reply...the internet isn't so cheap in South Africa.
Thanks again for your help.

[TheDefender]

No problem... The good thing is you got it resolved.