Calling an image

fly_fisher

Hello, hope someone can help me out.

What I want to do is call an image by url to display on a page. Not tough, I know. But here's the catch. The image I want to grab changes names on a daily basis. If is possible to build a get command with a variable url? Luckily the url changes are extremely consistant sicne they coordnate with the date.

Here an example url.
"http://somesite.com/subdirectory1/data/img/aaaa.01186000.02.00060..20061020.20061027.1.0.p50.gif"

The 2 colored areas are the variables that I would need to somehow code in. The BLUE numbers are the current date and the RED numbers are 7 days less.

Does anyone have an idea of how I can do this?

Many Thanks,
-fly fisher

NogDog

<?php
printf("<img src='http://somesite.com/subdirectory1/data/img/aaaa.01186000.02.00060..%s.%s.1.0.p50.gif'>",
date('Ymd'), date('Ymd', strtotime("-7 days")));
?>

fly_fisher

When trying to use the code above, I get a parse error. Any ideas?

-fly

Installer

Are you sure the error is with the line NogDog posted? 'Cause there's nothing wrong with it.

fly_fisher

Don't know what I did the first 30 times... but this time it worked like a charm.

THANKS NogDog!!.

-fly

fly_fisher

Everything still working fine except for 1 minor glitch.

How do I make the adjustments so that the code will call the date from a specific timezone? Since the names of the images change daily with the date, at 8:00 pm I can no longer grab the images, but at midnight they come back up. I'm assuming that the script pull the time of the servers, but how can I make the adjustment for my timezone?

-fly_fisher

NogDog

putenv("TZ=America/New_York");

See http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php for a list of recongnized time zones.

fly_fisher

Thanks again NogDog!

-fly_fisher