small switch problem

[shadowfox]

edit: gah, i was looking at another post and posted in the wrong php section....

 

just making a small switch based on the hour of the day but running into a problem when the time is 00 (24hr clock). it seems to default to the dawn output. even tried to change the code so the night output would be on the top, but it still outputs as dawn when the time is at 0.

 

		$test = 0;
	switch ($test) {
		case $test >= 6 && $test <= 8:
			return "dawn(".$test.")";
			break;
		case $test >= 9 && $test <= 17:
			return "day(".$test.")";
			break;
		case $test >= 18 && $test <= 20:
			return "evening(".$test.")";
			break;
		case $test >= 21 && $test <= 23 || $test >= 0 && $test <= 5:
			return "night(".$test.")";
			break;

 

 

[rhodesa]

this is not how SWITCH statements work...you should probably have this as an IF statement, but if you want to stay with a SWITCH, it would look like:

 

      $test = 0;
      switch (1) {
         case $test >= 6 && $test <= 8:
            return "dawn(".$test.")";
            break;
         case $test >= 9 && $test <= 17:
            return "day(".$test.")";
            break;
         case $test >= 18 && $test <= 20:
            return "evening(".$test.")";
            break;
         case $test >= 21 && $test <= 23 || $test >= 0 && $test <= 5:
            return "night(".$test.")";
            break;

 

but you should probably just use an IF:

$test = 0;
if($test >= 21 || $test <= 5){
  return "night($test)";
}elseif($test >= 18){
  return "evening($test)";
}elseif($test >= 9){
  return "day($test)";
}else{
  return "dawn($test)";
}