Need help with this function....

sgtpepper

Hello and thanks for any help. Here is what I am trying to do. I am working on a radio station website. I am building an 'On Air Now' function to be used on the website. What I have is this....

function phpblock_onair ()
{
$now = date("H i s");
$day = date("D");

if ($now > ("06 00 00")& $now < ("10 00 00"))
{
if ( $day == "Sat" )
{
$display = "sat";
}

else
if ( $day == "Sun" )
{
$display = "Sun";
}
else
{
$display = "

<table align='center' border='0'>
  <tr>
    <td><center>
STUFF HERE <center></td>
  </tr>

</table>
";
}

Basically, they have regular shifts during the weekday....but the times and shifts are different on Sat and Sun. For example, the morning show is weekdays 6a-10a, but on Sat there is something at 6-7am and something else at 7-9....than the schedule changes on Sunday.

So, I am wondering how I can simplify this function.....so I can config the if statement to simply say....

If it is mon-fri from 6a-10a do this. If it is Sat frm 6a-7a do this.....if it is sun 6p-10p do this....etc,

How can my function be rebuilt to do the above?

Thanks

laserlight

You could try something along these lines:

$now = time();
$day = strftime('%w', $now);
$time = strftime('%H', $now);

if ($day == 0) {
	//Sunday
} elseif ($day == 6) {
	//Saturday
	if ($time >= 6 && $time < 7) {
		//...
	} elseif ($time < 9) {
		//...
	}
} else {
	//Weekday
	if ($time >=6 && $time < 10) {
		//morning show
	}
}

Brit

This will do as you want it to:

<?PHP

# Perform action based on time schedule
# 21.11.2005
# Author - Brit 
# PHPBuilder thread ID - 10312701
# REQUIREMENTS: Edit the arrays as required.

/* Set up start times */	

function doSomethingOnAir()
{

$start_times = array("0900","0900","0900","0900","0900","1000","1100");
$end_times = array("1800","1700","1700","1700","1700","1600","1600");

/* What day are we now? */

$today_day = (date("w")-1);

/* What time is it now? */

$today_time = date("Hi");

/* Work out where we are */

if($today_time >= $start_times[$today_day] && $today_time <= $end_times[$today_day])
{
	/* Do something */
	print "OK";
}
else
{
	/* Do something */
	print "NO!";
}

}

doSomethingOnAir();

?>