Chosing an array based on current date

alareth

Ok, I'm trying to modify a bit of code that is used to make my website display random headers on pageload.

What I am modifying is this bit here:

$file = array('header.html', 'header2.html', 'header3.html');
$rand = rand(0, count($file)-1);

if (THEME_USES_TPL) {
    $cpgtpl->set_filenames(array('cpgheader' => $file[$rand]));
    $cpgtpl->display('cpgheader');
}

The change I am wanting deals with the array that contains the alternate header.html files.

The existing array is the default, but I would like the code to check the current date and if it falls between date X and date Y pull the headers from an alternate array. The idea is to automate the display of special holiday headers.

I'm not much of a php coder but I'm trying to learn.

It seems to me that it's simply a matter of an IF/THEN/ELSE statement to choose which array is used for $file, but I don't know how to do the date handling/checking.

Any help would be appreciated

mrhappiness

$file = array('header.html', 'header2.html', 'header3.html');
$holidays = array('header_holiday1.html', 'header_holiday2.html', 'header_holiday3.html', 'header_holiday4.html');

$start = strtotime('2005-08-01');
$end = strtotime('2005-08-15 23:59:59');
$current = time();
if ($current >= $start and $current <= $end)
  $array = $file;
else $array = $holidays;

$rand = rand(0, count($array)-1);

if (THEME_USES_TPL) {
    $cpgtpl->set_filenames(array('cpgheader' => $array[$rand]));
    $cpgtpl->display('cpgheader');
}

something like that?

LoganK

I've never heard of CPG-Nuke before...or CPG Dragonfly CMS for that matter? What are they? What made you use them over more commonly-used forums/CMSs like phpBB and Mambo/Drupal?