Newbie-ish Question

[tsorickm]

I need to write a script that will display a certain image/text depending on what day of the week, and what time of day it is currently.

i.e. If Monday between 10am - 2pm display image 'X' and text 'blahblahblah'

I need this for 7 different variables.

Now I'm really not asking for anyone to write the script for me (I'm not that kind of noob lol), but if someone could point me in the right direction as to which functions to use (I'm pretty comfortable using date("l") for weekday and date("H") for the hour) to match the images/text to the time/date I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks much in advance!

~Rick

[crazychris]

obviously a long if {} elseif {} else {} statement would work, but be a bit ugly...

You could populate an array with the filenames, keyed with the day/hour, then display the image from there: print $dayimg[date("lH")]

[frost110]

The date function has a way you can print that day of the week. Make an array of the days if it is a certain day, display the image of the key of that array.

$ar['sunday'] would display img_sunday.

so

$day = strtolower(date("l"));

print $ar[$day];

--FrosT

[tsorickm]

I appreciate the responses. What I need is a script that will send the image/text based on day AND time.

[crazychris]

You could populate an array with the filenames, keyed with the day/hour, then display the image from there:

$dayimg[date("lH")]

or

$dayimg[$date("l")][date("H")]