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Garcia6666

Hi,

I have a website where I would like a different text line to appear during different times of the week. Let's say that between 7-8 PM at Mondays it would say one thing, between 7-8 PM on Wednesdays another thing and so on. I want this to change automatically, so does anyone know about a script that would help me?

/Garcia

devinemke

$time = time();

if ($time >= strtotime('Monday 7pm') && $time <= strtotime('Monday 8pm'))
{
	echo 'it is now Monday between 7pm-8pm';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Wednesday 7pm') && $time <= strtotime('Wednesday 8pm'))
{
	echo 'it is now Wednesday between 7pm-8pm';
}

paul_v

Use the date function of php. Use date("D") to get the current day (gives Mon, Tue, etc.). You can get the hour by date("H"). Make an array or use if statements to match them.

Garcia6666

OK, thanks for your help. I'm kinda of new to PHP though, so exactly how do I proceed? I tried to paste the code into a php document like below, but that doesn't seem to work?

<?php

$time = time();

if ($time >= strtotime('Monday 7pm') && $time <= strtotime('Monday 8pm'))
{
echo 'it is now Monday between 7pm-8pm';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Wednesday 7pm') && $time <= strtotime('Wednesday 8pm'))
{
echo 'it is now Wednesday between 7pm-8pm';
}

devinemke

Originally posted by Garcia6666
but that doesn't seem to work?

can you be more specific? what doesn't work? be advised that with the code i used you would not see anything today since today is Thursday (in my time zone at least).

Garcia6666

Well these are the periods, so I have (hopefully) edited your script correctly:

<?php

$time = time();

if ($time >= strtotime('Monday 7am') && $time <= strtotime('Monday 8am'))
{
echo 'it is now Monday between 7am-8am';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Monday 7pm') && $time <= strtotime('Monday 8pm'))
{
echo 'it is now Monday between 7pm-8pm';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Wednesday 7am') && $time <= strtotime('Wednesday 8am'))
{
echo 'it is now Wednesday between 7am-8am';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Wednesday 7pm') && $time <= strtotime('Wednesday 8pm'))
{
echo 'it is now Wednesday between 7pm-8pm';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Friday 6am') && $time <= strtotime('Friday 8am'))
{
echo 'it is now Friday between 6am-8am';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Friday 6pm') && $time <= strtotime('Friday 8pm'))
{
echo 'it is now Friday between 6pm-8pm';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Saturday 6am') && $time <= strtotime('Saturday 8am'))
{
echo 'it is now Saturday between 6am-8am';
}

if ($time >= strtotime('Saturday 6pm') && $time <= strtotime('Saturday 8pm'))
{
echo 'it is now Saturday between 6pm-8pm';
}

So far so good, but I also want a certain message to display on all other times, how do I incorprate that into the script?

devinemke

following paul's advice about using an array:

$array = array(
	'Monday|7am-8am',
	'Monday|7pm-8pm',
	'Wednesday|7am-8am',
	'Wednesday|7pm-8pm',
	'Friday|6am-8am',
	'Friday|6pm-8pm',
	'Saturday|6am-8am'	
);

$time = time();
$text = 'the current time is outside of any of the defined ranges';

foreach ($array as $value)
{
	$explode = explode('|', $value);
	$day = $explode[0];
	$explode = explode('-', $explode[1]);
	$start = $explode[0];
	$end = $explode[1];

if ($time >= strtotime("$day $start") && $time <= strtotime("$day $end"))
{
	$text = "it is now $day between $start and $end"; 
}

}

echo $text;

Garcia6666

This works, great! Sorry for being a little bit unspecific though. The ''the current time is outside of any of the defined ranges'' message is great, but I would also like to have a seperate message display on each of the specified days with the respective times, that is one for monday, one for wednesday, one for friday an done for saturday.

To sum it up it should go like:

Monday (7-8 AM/PM): Message A
Wednesday (7-8 AM/PM): Message B
Friday (6-8 AM/PM): Message C
Saturday (6-8 AM/PM): Message D

All other times: Message E ("the current time is outside of any of the defined ranges")

devinemke

look carefully at the code i have already posted, read the manual pages concerning the specific functions that i used and i'm sure you will be able to figure that out on your own. good luck.

Garcia6666

Well thanks, I'm sure gonna need it to figure this one out. But I'm workin' on it. Cant't promise I won't be back though :-)

Garcia6666

This seems to work...

<?php

$time = time();
$text = 'Main broadcast';

foreach ($array as $value)
{
$explode = explode('|', $value);
$day = $explode[0];
$explode = explode('-', $explode[1]);
$start = $explode[0];
$end = $explode[1];

if ($time >= strtotime("Monday 7am") && $time <= strtotime("Monday 8am")) 
{ 
    $text = "Update";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Monday 7pm") && $time <= strtotime("Monday 8pm")) 
{ 
    $text = "Update";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Wednesday 7am") && $time <= strtotime("Wednesday 8am")) 
{ 
    $text = "Decade";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Wednesday 7pm") && $time <= strtotime("Wednesday 8pm")) 
{ 
    $text = "Decade";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Friday 6am") && $time <= strtotime("Friday 8am")) 
{ 
    $text = "The Zone";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Friday 6pm") && $time <= strtotime("Friday 8pm")) 
{ 
    $text = "The Zone";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Saturday 6am") && $time <= strtotime("Saturday 8am")) 
{ 
    $text = "Neon Nights";  
} 

if ($time >= strtotime("Saturday 6pm") && $time <= strtotime("Saturday 8pm")) 
{ 
    $text = "Neon Nights";  
}

}

echo $text;

Any comments on this, or does it seem alright?

Garcia6666

Not much response here. Whatever. The script works just fine, and I just wanted to say thank you, as I never would have figured this one out on my own.