[RESOLVED] "IF" type query?

[Denholm]

Hello,

as some of you might know I'm relatively new to this. I wanted to know if anyone knew of a tutorial or if they could simply demonstrate some PHP code that would operate in this type method:

Say on January the 1st of this year, I wanted a special message to appear on my website. I would use this script to locate the file that I want displayed and the script would print it out for the user looking at the web page.

I want a different file (Or text) displayed on every day of the year. I thought that it might work based on the user's date and time. The PHP script would analyze it and locate the file for that specific day.

[etully]

First, put 365 files on your server in a directory called "inc" or "includes" or something like that. The names of the files should be in this form:

file M M D D .txt

so the file for February 3 would be: file0203.txt

Now that you have that, put this PHP on your web page(s).

$monthday = date("md",time());
include("includes/file".$monthday.".txt");

[scrupul0us]

365 text files? yikes... if your looking for custom text for each day of the year use a database OR make one file that you can parse... that many files is just MESSY

[Denholm]

More like 366, thanks. (Incase of a leap year)

[etully]

365 text files? yikes

Yeah, there's no question that a database is the right way to do this but the op specifically asked for it that way. Also, since he described himself as a beginner, I thought I'd start simple.

Doing it with a database takes about three fairly substantial new skills: create database, connect to database from PHP, select and display data (not to mention building an add/edit/delete tool to manage the data). Creating text files is something he's already comfortable with so I thought this would be a small step - he could see some PHP code, learn how it works, and then later ask how he can save himself the trouble of creating that many text files.

[Denholm]

I'm having trouble connecting to my SQLite databse, a file is missing which is requied to connect to the databse, I can't find that file at all, even did a google search which turned up no results.

Also, I installed MySQL once to no avail. For some reason PHP wouldn't connect to the databse.

EDIT: Here is the link about my SQLite problems:
http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10334939