changing items after a date

[chwebdesigns]

Hi,

What I have is a table (code below) and it is for an events page. What I want is after the date has gone, it changes the whole row to grey. ( #666666 ). Thanks for your help,

From

Cal

P.S. I'm a novice at PHP & have no access to mySQL

 

Events Table Code:

<table width="567" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="events">
                <tr bgcolor="#FF9933">
                  <td colspan="2"><div align="center">
                    <p><strong>JUNE</strong></p>
                    </div></td>
                  </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sun 3rd June </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td width="441"><div align="center">
                    <p>Int. Comp</p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sat 9th June </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>Class 3 Judges Course</p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sun 10th June </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>Comp</p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sun 24th June </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>First Aid Course</p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr bgcolor="#FF9933">
                  <td colspan="2"><div align="center">
                    <p><strong>JULY</strong></p>
                  </div></td>
                  </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sun 1st July 07 </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>Comp </p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sat 7th & <br>
                      Sun 8th July </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>Seminar 321</p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sun 15th July </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>Grading 8 </p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="120"><div align="center">
                    <p>Sun 22nd July </p>
                  </div></td>
                  <td><div align="center">
                    <p>Competition 198</p>
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                       </table>

[Wildbug]

Convert the text date to a date and compare it to the current date.

 

How are retreiving these dates?

 

To convert from text, something like:

$months = array('January' => 1,'February' => 2,'March'=>3, 'April'=>4, 'May'=>5, 'June'=>6, 'July'=>7, 'August'=>8, 'September'=>9, 'October'=>10, 'November'=>11, 'December'=>12);
$textdate = 'Sun 3rd June';
preg_match('/\w{3} (\d{1,2}) (\w+)/',$textdate,$matches);
$numdate = sprintf('%02d%02d',$months[$matches[2]],$matches[1]);
if ($numdate > date('md')) echo "Whatever you want here.";

[chwebdesigns]

I don't understand what that code does.

I am not too sure whether I explained this right or not,

I have many rows, each with two columns, in one column there is a date (in format of Sun 10th June) and in the second column there is information about the event.

After the date has passed (and abviously the event has finished too, I want the background in the two cells to turn grey ( #666666 )

(the code for the table is above)

Cheers, from

Cal

[Wildbug]

If you are retrieving the rows from a database, it would be trivial to decide if the date has passed.

 

If you only have a static HTML table you're reading the date/event from, then you'll need something like I posted above to turn the date string into a number in order to compare it to the current date.  Once the comparison has been made, you can then print it whatever color you please.