random url and description script

amdttlyrulz

Hello all,

I'm in need of some guidance I gotta make a script that will display to the browser a different URL each day of the week using the switch/case statement and comparing to the numeric day of the week (0-6), not the textual (Sunday-Saturday) day of the week. Use only one print() function to do this and make these urls active hyperlinks with the url title hyperlinked and the url description not hyperlinked.

If anyone could share an example of how this should look it would be much appreciated 🙂

drew010


$day = date("w");
switch($day) {
  case 0: showLink("www.sunday.com"); break;
  case 1: showLink("www.monday.com"); break;
  case 2: showLink("www.tuesday.com"); break;
  case 3: showLink("www.wednesday.com"); break;
  case 4: showLink("www.thursday.com"); break;
  case 5: showLink("www.friday.com"); break;
  case 6: showLink("www.saturday.com"); break;

function showLink($url)
{
  print("<a href='http://$url' target='_new'>$url</a><br />");
}

thats one way to go about it, here is a more efficient way without the switch statement, but if you are required to use switch, go with whats above...


$urls = array("http://www.sunday.com", "http://www.monday.com", "http://www.tuesday.com", "http://www.wednesday.com", "http://www.thursday.com", "http://www.friday.com", "http://www.saturday.com");

$url = $urls[date("w")];

print("<a href='$url' target='_new'>$url</a><br />");

SumitGupta

Hi,

well what you want to achieve is not difficult...

You can store the urls in a single variables..like

switch ($day)
{
case 0: $url="http://www.xyz.com/myfirstpage.html";
$LinkedText="My First Link"
$linkedURLDescription="My Description"
case 1: $url="http://www.xyz.com/mysecondpage.html";
$LinkedText="My Second Link"
$linkedURLDescription="My Desdsfsd sdf sdgdf gdfcription"
....

}
simply do this..

echo "<a href=$url>$LinkedText</a><br>$linkedURLDEscription";

simple....🙂

amdttlyrulz

Thanks for the help guys! 🙂