If's and Else's

vertmonkee

I am trying to write a simple piece of code that will tell a user when they can expecta product to be delivered depending on the day and the time. If it is a week day and before 14:00 then they can expect the product the next day. If it is past 14:00 then it will be in two days time. The weekends are different because of no post on sunday.

The following code displays everyhting no matter what day it is. I then changed it all to "elseif" statements but now it only ever says the expected delivery day is Tuesday.

<?php
//Supplies a delivery date as an included file on product_info.php

$date = date(l);
$time = date(H);

if ($date = Monday and $time < 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Tuesday";
if ($date = Monday and $time > 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Wednesday";
if ($date = Tuesday and $time < 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Wednesday";
if ($date = Tuesday and $time > 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Thursday";
if ($date = Wednesday and $time < 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Thursday";
if ($date = Wednesday and $time > 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Friday";
if ($date = Thursday and $time < 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Friday";
if ($date = Thursday and $time > 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Saturday";
if ($date = Friday and $time < 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Saturday";
if ($date = Friday and $time > 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Monday";
if ($date = Saturday and $time < 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Monday";
if ($date = Saturday and $time > 14) echo "Expected delivery day is Tuesday";
if ($date = Sunday) echo "Expected delivery day is Tuesday";

Thanks for any help

rincewind456

Try this:

<?php
//Supplies a delivery date as an included file on product_info.php

$date = date('l');
$time = date('H');

if ($date == 'Monday' and $time < 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Tuesday";}
if ($date == 'Monday' and $time > 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Wednesday";}
if ($date == 'Tuesday' and $time < 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Wednesday";}
if ($date == 'Tuesday' and $time > 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Thursday";}
if ($date == 'Wednesday' and $time < 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Thursday";}
if ($date == 'Wednesday' and $time > 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Friday";}
if ($date == 'Thursday' and $time < 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Friday";}
if ($date == 'Thursday' and $time > 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Saturday";}
if ($date == 'Friday' and $time < 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Saturday";}
if ($date == 'Friday' and $time > 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Monday";}
if ($date == 'Saturday' and $time < 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Monday";}
if ($date == 'Saturday' and $time > 14) {echo "Expected delivery day is Tuesday";}
if ($date == 'Sunday') {echo "Expected delivery day is Tuesday";}



?>

It might be an idea to turn error reporting to on, as you wopuld then have had a long list of errors which would, most likely, have pointed you in the right direction.

Roger_Ramjet

You really should be doing this with a Switch

vertmonkee

Thanks for the suggestion about using a switch statement. I looked into it and wrote a first copy. I am planning to add "H" into the date function so it will return a day and time but I'm unsure how to evaluate this in the case part of the statement.

e.g. How would I say if it is monday before 14:00 echo "This statement"

Thanks for any help.

Here is the code I have used so far.

<?php

$date_and_time = date('l');

switch ($date_and_time) {
case "Monday":
echo "Delivery day is Tuesday";
break;
case "Tuesday":
echo "Delivery day is Wednesday";
break;
case "Wednesday":
echo "Delivery day is Thursday";
break;
case "Thursday":
echo "Delivery day is Friday";
break;
case "Friday":
echo "Delivery day is Saturday";
break;
case "Saturday":
echo "Delivery day is Monday";
break;
case "Sunday":
echo "Delivery day is Tuesday";
break;
}

bpat1434

switch(TRUE)
{
  case (date('w')==1 && date('H')<14):
    echo 'Delivery is Tuesday';
    break;
  case (date('w')==1 && date('H')>14):
    echo 'Delivery is Wednesday';
    break;
  // etc.... etc....
}

Another option is:

<?php

switch(TRUE)
{
  case(date('w')==1):
    if(date('H')<14){ echo 'Delivery is Tuesday'; }
    if(date('H')>14){ echo 'Delivery is Wednesday'; }
    break;
  // etc... etc...
}

~Brett

Roger_Ramjet

Well you can use an expression in the case statement so you put the time cut in there.

Ah! I was just going to copy/paste and now see that bpat has beaten me to it.

vertmonkee

Thanks a lot guys.

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