Graphic Change Based on Date Span

[psquillace]

Hello All,

 

I worte this bit of code so that a few graphics I have online will change if in between 2 dates. It goes something like this:

 

<?php


if(time() > strtotime('1262930400') && time() < strtotime('1263427199')){

	echo ('<tr><td align="center" valign="middle" colspan="2"><a href="http://www.raffledrums.com/acrylic-raffle-drums.htm"><img src="images/raffledrums_tn.jpg" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="5" width="238" height="98" alt="Giant Raffle Drums"></a></td></tr>');

}else{

echo ('<tr><td align="center" valign="middle" colspan="2"> </td></tr>');	
}

?>

 

However, it is not working correctly.

 

Am I doing something wrong in there that I am missing?

 

Thanks for the help and or advice on this,

 

Paul

[mikesta707]

what are those times in the strtotime() function supposed to be exactly? have you tried putting dashes or some other delimiter between the year/day/month?

[psquillace]

Hi Mike,

 

those are supposed to be Unix Times in Seconds. I tested it by doing an echo time() function. It gave me the date and time in seconds.

 

 

[laffin]

strtotime takes a date format string, and converts it to time format.

if you already have the time, than there is no need to convert.

those strings should be just numbers (int)

if(time() > 1262930400 && time() < 1263427199){

[ignace]

Please note that

 

if(time() > 1262930400 && time() < 1263427199){

 

Will only work only once that is between 1262930400 and 1263427199. Once it exceeds 1263427199 it will never be shown again. Is this what you are looking for? Or is it more something like this

 

if (date('H', time()) == 15 && date('H', time()) < 18) {
  ..

 

Which displays something during a certain part of the day?

[psquillace]

Ahhh...

 

Thanks guys for all the tips on this, I got it to work.. only took me 5hrs. LOL

 

Paul