Hello there,

As the title mentioned my coding is pretty much non-existent but I am learning. I am more of a designer that is trying to migrate some of my skills into coding.

Anyways... I have a customer that wants wants a relationship site updated. Basically he wants a function where if someone rolls over the image of a couple then a box with text appears offering different daily advice. No problem.

I am just not certain how to load the daily advice everyday without having to actually change it everyday manually. Certainly there is a way, would PHP be the choice for this? What do you coders recommend?

What method are you using, prewritten ones or are you going to write say 30 and show 1 per day?

If you're showing 30 (I chose 30 as then you can do 1 per day of the month and you date() and compare with the date with it to chose the correct one). Then just create a div box to show onmouseover and to hide onmouseout.

The code you will probably want would be along the lines of:

$message[1] = "First of the month, good time to meet someone new";
$message[2] = "The moons orbit shows your going to be single forever!!! Mwahahahaha (Unless you give me money!)";

$date = date("d");
echo $message[$date];

Write a message all the way up to however many days are in the month. I only recommended this way as you're new to php. But it's also incredibly simple to alter so it takes your messages from a database too.

Let us know if it helped!

Or, the short way

$mes = 'first day message
second day message
and so on';
// write one per line
$arrai = explode("\n",$mes);
if(isset($arrai[date('d')-1])) echo $arrai[date('d')-1];

... That's exactly the same as what I suggested ,except your using 1 string and the explode function, where as I left that out so he can see the days easier. It's also the same length and much easier for the beginner coder.

I recommend Stephen's suggestion, however, you could add a little more "randomness" to it by using a multi-dimensional array thereby giving you a few options for each day, which means, the user would see different messages on the same day. For example:

$message[1][1] = "First option for day 1";
$message[1][2] = "Second option for day 1";
$message[1][3] = "Third option for day 1";

$message[2][1] = "First option for day 2";
$message[2][2] = "Second option for day 2";
$message[2][3] = "Third option for day 2";


$date = date("d");
echo $message[$date][Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]

NOTE: I hardcoded the "3" in the random function to match the number of options you have for each day. Also, make sure that each day has the same number of options.

Originally Posted by Stephen.

... That's exactly the same as what I suggested ,except your using 1 string and the explode function, where as I left that out so he can see the days easier. It's also the same length and much easier for the beginner coder.

Technically it's the same thing BUT in my code you can make a copy-paste from a document and let PHP take every line. In your code you must define arrays, so you must add every sentence

Storing the information inside a database could also help in constructing this idea. You will be a lot better off using the db if your plan on having alot of advice to store in the db. As a side note, you don't need a db if you don't have much content, the db just makes it easier to handle alot more information. Mysql or MsSql are two db types you can look into.

Originally Posted by vectorialpx

Technically it's the same thing BUT in my code you can make a copy-paste from a document and let PHP take every line. In your code you must define arrays, so you must add every sentence

Yes, but with the title of this thread, saying his coding sucks, it's much simpler to use it without SQL as it's very simple for him then