Php now playing script

radioguy1961

Hi Guys, This is my first post, just joined your site. I have an internet radio station and I am trying to find a script that will display " a recorded show" on my site. Example, I run a show called "Greatest Hits U.S.A." It runs on Saturday nights from 7 till 10 pm. I'm not sure how to write a script that will start at 7pm and end at 10 pm and also display the title of the recorded show. Below is a script I came up with but all it does is display's is today's date and time::

<?php
$date= date ("l, h:ia");
If($date == "Monday, 10:00a" || $date == "Wednesday, 10:00a"  || $date == "Saturday, 08:00a") {  

// Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 60S)
echo "Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 60S)";
}
If($date == "Monday, 2:00p" || $date == "Wednesday, 2:00p"  || $date == "Saturday, 10:00a") {  

// Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 70s)
echo "Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 70s)";
}
If($date == "Monday, 6:00p" || $date == "Wednesday, 6:00p"  || $date == "Saturday, 2:00p") {  

// Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 80s)
echo "Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 80s)";
}
If($date == "Friday, 8:00p") {  

// The Doo Wop Express With Ron Norwood
echo "The Doo Wop Express With Ron Norwood";
}
If($date == "Saturday, 7:00p") {  

// Greatest Hits U.S.A With Rick Williams
echo "Greatest Hits U.S.A With Rick Williams";
}
If($date == "Sunday, 2:00p") {  

// Saving The 70s With Mike Walker
echo "Saving The 70s With Mike Walker";
}
?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

dalecosp

Welcome to PHPBuilder!

Can you clarify a bit? If I'm reading correctly, if I visit your site at 2:01pm on Sunday, I won't see "Saving the 70s With Mike Walker"...

I'd think you'd want a $day variable, and then check if the time (hour) is within a certain range ...

radioguy1961

I want the name of the show ie " saving the 70s with mike walker" to show up on my now playing page during the time it is scheduled to air. ie 2pm till 3pm, like I said I am just starting to learn (hopefully) php. hope this clarifies clearly what I mean 🙂

bradgrafelman

And hopefully you see why that isn't what your current script is doing? You're doing literal string comparisons, so unless the current time matches the one in the string exactly (not a minute before or after), that condition won't be true.

Instead, try what dalecosp suggested - get the current day and hour (separately) such that you can do some numerical comparisons on the hour. (By the way, using the 24-hour clock format makes these numerical comparisons simpler.)

EDIT: Also, welcome to PHPBuilder! When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

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[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

dalecosp

radioguy1961;11038971 wrote:
I want the name of the show ie " saving the 70s with mike walker" to show up on my now playing page during the time it is scheduled to air. ie 2pm till 3pm, like I said I am just starting to learn (hopefully) php. hope this clarifies clearly what I mean 🙂

It does indeed clarify your meaning, and that's what I thought, but, as Brad G has mentioned, your code doesn't do this. Try something more like:

$day = date('D');  //'Mon','Tue', etc.
$hour = date('G'); //hours, 0-23


if ( ($day == "Mon" && $hour==10) || ($day == "Wed" && $hour==10)  || ($day == "Sat" && $hour==8) ) {   

   // Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 60S) 
   echo "Takin Ya Back With Kurt David (TYB 60S)"; 
} //endif

//etc........

This would cover, for example, 10AM through 10:59 AM on Monday and Wednesday, and 8AM through 8:59 AM on Saturday...

HTH,