If this date, this image

zoobie

I've can't seem to find a simple PHP image script that sits in a folder and calls on an image in said folder depending on the date. It probably involves assembling an array of dates. The year isn't important. A switch possibly?

If 12/25 (Christmas),
this image;
else,
do nothing.

I must be missing a search term or something.
Little help?
Thanks

bradgrafelman

What have you tried?

You could use [man]date/man to generate a string containing the month and day. You could then use either a series of if() statements or a switch statement according to your preference.

zoobie

Yes - As soon as I posted, I found a few using both arguments and switches. I'll be back if I can't get 'er done.
Thanks

zoobie

Well, I messed with it to no avail. I'm actually trying to pass the result of cursor.php's script into the main page's stylesheet to change the cursor on appropriate days. I'm working with April 5th presently.

cursor.php

<?php
$now = date('m,d');
switch ($now) {
case '04 05': echo '<img/cursors/balancing.ani>'; break;
}
?>

style.css

body {cursor: url("inc/cursor.php"), auto;}

No luck yet

Weedpacket

In other words, the image file you're trying to display consists of the string [font=monospace]"<img/cursors/balancing.ani>"[/font], which doesn't look like any image file format I'm familiar with.

Either your [font=monospace]cursor.php[/font] script will need to return the contents of the [font=monospace]img/cursors/balancing.ani[/font] animated cursor file (remember to use the file path and not a URL when reading it), or you could have a static stylesheet that just lists all the relevant cursor URLs with distinct classes and in the page pick which class to use dynamically (based on the date).

Derokorian

Also your format to month comma day but check for month space day so this will never match.

zoobie

I see it - thanks. I think it came from when I c&p'd another script I'm working with that uses a series of elseif's. As lame as this is, I'm surprised there aren't more cursor scripts around.

zoobie

I changed it up a bit. It checks for a specific date and displays an appropriate cursor. If the date isn't found, it defaults to the cursor of the month. Everything's currently in the root folder so I can see the paths clearly.


index.php



<style>

body {cursor: url("cursor.php"), auto;}

</style>

cursor.php



<?php
$date = date("m,d");
$monthly = date('m');

if($date == "04,06"){
     echo("moustache.ani");
}
elseif($date == "12,25"){
     echo("christmas.ani");
}
else{
switch ($monthly) {
case '04': echo '<"balancing.ani">'; break;
}
}
?>