Scheduling Content?

[mattblank]

Hi,

 

I have a radio schedule and want to show what's on each day. If I was to create files called monday.php, tuesday.php, wednesday.php etc... how can I schedule it so the include file that is displayed on a page shows monday.php every Monday, saturday.php every Saturday etc...

 

Many thanks in advance,

Matt

[adam291086]

You could use

 

$day = date("D");

 

to work out the day. Then use a switch statement to incude diffent things

Switch $day;
{
case Mon:
include(../monday.php);
 break;
case Tue:
 include(../tue.php);  
break;
case Wed:
 include(../wed.php);  
 break;
default:
 echo "No number between 1 and 3";

[mattblank]

Thanks Adam!

 

So if I was to place that code in my page with the PHP tags wrapped around it, it would work?

 

Thanks!

Matt

[adam291086]

It should do. If you put error_reporting(E_ALL); at the top of you script. Then if you get any errors then post them here.

[mattblank]

Hi Adam,

 

It says there's a problem with the line: Switch $day;

 

Matt

[adam291086]

A) what was the error

B) post your code

[mattblank]

I'm simply putting this in (I'm don't know much about PHP)

 

   

<?php

Switch $day;
{
case Mon:
include(includes/monday.php);
break;
case Tue:
include(includes/tuesday.php); 
break;
case Wed:
include(includes/wednesday.php);
break;
case Thu:
include(includes/thursday.php);
break;
case Fri:
include(includes/firday.php);
break;
default:
  	echo "No number between 1 and 5";
   ?>

[adam291086]

have you define the variable $day?

[mattblank]

???

 

Sorry...I'm really no good at php  :'(

[rajivgonsalves]

well you can shorten your code considerably if you have name the files properly consider the following code

 

<?php
$strDay = strtolower(date("l"));

if (file_exists("includes/{$strDay}.php"))
{	
	include("includes/{$strDay}.php");
}
else 
{
	echo "No number between 1 to 5";
}

?>

[adam291086]

Should look like this

 

$day = date("D");
Switch $day;
{
case Mon:
include(monday.php);
break;
case Tue:
include(tuesday.php); 
break;
case Wed:
include(wednesday.php);
break;
case Thu:
include(thursday.php);
break;
case Fri:
include(firday.php);
break;
default:
  	include(monday.php);
}
   ?>

[mattblank]

Thanks to you both! I will use the following code and name my files monday.php etc... through to sunday.php

 

<?php
$strDay = strtolower(date("l"));

if (file_exists("includes/{$strDay}.php"))
{	
	include("includes/{$strDay}.php");
}
?>

 

Many thanks,

Matt