Help with date function

[metalhead41]

Ok, I may need to do this in javascript but it doesn't hurt to ask here incase there is a php way

 

The school I work for has alternating timetable weeks, e.g week a, week b. What I want to do is have a backed calender for the website (user's won't be able to see it), that has all the different timetable weeks, and holidays built into it. On the website itself, I would like to just display the date, time and week info that it pulls from the backend calender...

 

Is this possible? or is it something that will only be able to be done in javascript?

 

Thanks for your replies

[metalhead41]

Anyone have an idea?

[revraz]

I see no reason why you can't do it with PHP.

[harristweed]

My thoughts are:

 

If you only have week=a or week=b, get he week number using the date() function and if it'a an odd number week = a even week = b (or vise versa).

 

Include the holiday weeks in a switch statement.....

[metalhead41]

My thoughts are:

 

If you only have week=a or week=b, get he week number using the date() function and if it'a an odd number week = a even week = b (or vise versa).

 

Include the holiday weeks in a switch statement.....

 

Brilliant, how would I get the week number from date()?

[metalhead41]

Ok, forget that last question, 'twas a stupid one...

However, how would I go about doing the switch statement for holidays etc?

[harristweed]

Like this:

<?php
  $week=date("W");

  switch ($week) {
      
      
      case "20":
      // it's easter
      break;
      
      case "30":
      //summer holiday
      break;
       case "51":
       //Christmas
       break;
       
       default:
       if($week % 2){
           //its week a
       $display = "week a";
       }else{
           //it's week b
        $display = "week b"; 
       }
       
  }
?>

[metalhead41]

Like this:

<?php
  $week=date("W");

  switch ($week) {
      
      
      case "20":
      // it's easter
      break;
      
      case "30":
      //summer holiday
      break;
       case "51":
       //Christmas
       break;
       
       default:
       if($week % 2){
           //its week a
       $display = "week a";
       }else{
           //it's week b
        $display = "week b"; 
       }
       
  }
?>

 

Brilliant, just what I wanted thanks.