Is there a way for particular pages to loadup depending on the time of day?

Much thanks

What exactly do you mean by "loadup"?

If you mean show up you could use the date function, for example.

PHP Code:

$date = date("Gis"); // Lets say this brings back 151005, where 15 (G) is the Hour, 10 (i) is the minutes and 05 (s) is the seconds.
if($date >= 150000 and $date <= 180000){ // If the time is before 15:00:00 (3PM) and  16:00:00 (6PM) show the site.

} else { // Show an error message.
} 


sorry what I mean was for example....

index.php will have includes that say

between 2 and 3 am load 2.php
between 3 and 4 am load 3.php

Again much thanks, php is really cool... I want get down to some more serious studying

Okay, after 1/2 cup of coffee something like this should work:

PHP Code:

<?php
 
// This is getting the time off of the server and the 0 <= hours <= 23.
 
$filesuffix = date("H");
settype($filesuffix, "string");
$file2load = $filesuffix."php";
include '$file2load';
exit();
 
?>

Hope this helps,
Barrie

Originally Posted by keithkiss

sorry what I mean was for example....

index.php will have includes that say

between 2 and 3 am load 2.php
between 3 and 4 am load 3.php

Again much thanks, php is really cool... I want get down to some more serious studying

You might want something like this

PHP Code:

<?php

/* get the hour of the day in 24 hour format */
$displaydate = date('G');

/* dispaly page between 1 and 2 pm */
if ($displaydate >= 13 and <= 14) {
    include('13.php');
}
/* dispaly page between 2 and 3 pm */
elseif ($displaydate >= 14 and <= 15) {
    include('14.php);
}
elseif (and  so on) {
}
else {
    include('default.php')
}
?>

so is there a variable for displaytime?

The flow of the script is perfect so far....Im getting the idea slowly

Much thanks

Do you know any good PHP documentation for noobs like me?
(Like how to use what variables exist and how to use them)

At the beginning $displaydate is declared as the hour of the day in 24 hour format:
$displaydate = date('G');

There are tons of books. The best documentation is on the php web site
http://www.php.net/docs.php

For me, I have not found one book. None of them are complete. But I think the Oreilly has some very good books.
Learning PHP5
Learning PHP and MySQL
PHP Cookbook