time function

joma

my business hours are from monday - friday 0800 - 1700 and on Saturday from 0800 to 1200, what i want to do is display and Open sign if the times are between this i have got this

<?php

if (date('H') > 8 && date('H') < 17) {

echo "Open ";
} else {
  echo "Closed";
}

?>

i dont know how to get it to work with the days, can someone please help me here.

jamesm87

<?php
$day=date('D');
if ((date('H') > 8 && date('H') < 17 && $day{0}!='S') or ($day=='Sat' && date('H')>8 && date('H')<12)) {
    echo "Open ";
} else {
  echo "Closed";
}
?>

joma

if i do this

<?php
$day=date('D');
if ((date('H') > 8 && date('H') < 17 && $day{0}!='S') or ($day=='Thu' && date('H')>8 && date('H')<12)) {
    echo "Open ";
} else {
  echo "Closed";
}
?>

When i change the 'Sat' to today 'Thu' it still shows Open even though it is 12:30, is there any reason why that is ? I also set the time for the saturday one back to 10 and still the same. Thanks for the help

NogDog

joma wrote:
if i do this
<?php
$day=date('D');
if ((date('H') > 8 && date('H') < 17 && $day{0}!='S') or ($day=='Thu' && date('H')>8 && date('H')<12)) {
    echo "Open ";
} else {
  echo "Closed";
}
?>
When i change the 'Sat' to today 'Thu' it still shows Open even though it is 12:30, is there any reason why that is ? I also set the time for the saturday one back to 10 and still the same. Thanks for the help

I just copied-and-pasted your code, and it worked fine for me. (I changed the 'Thu' to 'Wed' as it's still barely Wednesday here.)

One quick sanity check: what time zone is your server's default time set to? You may need to use [man]date_default_timezone_set[/man] (or setenv() if using a PHP version older than 5.10) to set the desired time zone.

joma

php version is 4.4.3, i tried that script again and still no luck, it is working between the 8-5 bit, but not the saturday one, is there any other way of writing it that it might work ? maybe like

if day is mon-friday use case 1 which is 8-5
if day is saturday use case 2 which is 8-12
is day is sunday use case 3 which is closed

perhaps if we done it like that we could put a

if date is (public holidays) use case 4 which is closed ??? thanks

bpat1434

<?php

$now = time();
$dst = date('I');

// Adjust for timezone... EST (assuming server is GMT)
if($dst)
  $offset = -4;
else
  $offset = -5;
$now += ($offset*60*60);  // Remove/Add $offset hours
$open=false;

// If it's Monday - Friday
if(date('N', $now) >=1 && date('N', $now) <= 5)
{
    if(date('G', $now) >=8 && date('G', $now) < 17)
      $open=true;
}
// If it's Saturday
elseif(date('N', $now) == 6)
{
    if(date('G', $now) >= 8 && date('G', $now) <12)
      $open=true;
}

if($open)
    echo 'Open!';
else
    echo 'Closed.';

Made some adjustments....

joma

it is only showing up closed by using this.
when i echo $now i get 1209768093 is that right ??

NogDog

joma wrote:
it is only showing up closed by using this.
when i echo $now i get 1209768093 is that right ??

Do something like the following to find out what the server thinks the current time is as saved in $now:

echo date('Y/m/d-H:i:s', $now);

joma

Using

echo date('Y/m/d-H:i:s', $now);

i get this

2008/05/03-11:09:43

which is only 5 mins out, everything else is fine

joma

how about is i take the offset change out, as it is the right time ?
how would i do that ?

NogDog

Probably no different than the others, but a slightly different way to organize things:

<?php

$now = time();
$day = date('D', $now); // 'Mon' = 'Sun'
$hour = date('G', $now); // 0 - 23
$status = 'closed';
switch($day)
{
   case 'Sun':
      break;  // closed all day
   case 'Sat':
      if($hour >= 8 and $hour < 12)
      {
         $status = 'open';
      }
      break;
   default:  // Mon - Fri
      if($hour >= 8 and $hour < 17)
      {
         $status = 'open';
      }
}
echo "We are currently $status.";

?>

joma

that one works GREAT !!, well it works for today so i will know on mon if it works the week huh, is there anyway of specifying dates that we will be closed, public holidays ??

NogDog

Of course there are many ways. 🙂

You could create an array of holidays, and add an additional check to see if the current date is in that array (such as with the [man]in_array[/man] function). If it is, then set the status to "closed".

bpat1434

You could just check for the month & day. Something like this:

$now = time();

$holidays = array('0115'=>'MLK Day', '0202'=>'Groundhog Day', '0704'=>'Independence Day', '1225'=>'Christmas');

$today = date('md', $now);
if(array_key_exists($today, $holidays))
{
	$status = 'closed for the holiday: ' . $holidays[$today];
}
else
{
	$day = date('D', $now); // 'Mon' = 'Sun'
	$hour = date('G', $now); // 0 - 23
	$status = 'closed';
	switch($day)
	{
		case 'Sun':
			break;  // closed all day
		case 'Sat':
			if($hour >= 8 and $hour < 12)
			{
				$status = 'open';
			}
			break;
		default:  // Mon - Fri
			if($hour >= 8 and $hour < 17)
			{
				$status = 'open';
			}
	}
}

echo "We are currently $status.";

Crap!! While I was coding... Charles was replying....

joma

thanks heaps. will test it out soon. thanks for all you time