Re: Checking the season

Hi This should work: <? $year = date("Y"); $spring = mktime (0,0,0,3,21,$year); $summer = mktime (0,0,0,6,21,$year); $autumn = mktime (0,0,0,9,21,$year); $winter = mktime (0,0,0,12,21,$year); $now = mktime(); if($now < $spring || $now >= $winter):

        echo "Winter";

elseif($now >= $autumn):

        echo "Autumn";

elseif($now >= $summer):

        echo "Summer";

else:

        echo "Spring";

endif; ?> BTW There may be a bug in mktime() (php4) if you use 08 or 09 in the month part...on my system this happens (linux/apache/php4.1) <? $autumn = mktime (0,0,0,09,21,2002); echo "date = ".date("d/m/Y",$autumn)."<br>"; ?> This prints: date = 21/12/2001 Also prints the same date for a month of 08 Tom At 11:34 AM 6/01/02, webapprentice wrote:

I'll have to use and if/elseif construct, because I don't believe a switch() constructs cases can take expressions, can it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Stancescu" <mgv@fx.ro> To: "webapprentice" <webapprentice@onemain.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Checking the season You could do a case() or if/elseif, check if it's spring, summer or autumn and leave the code for winter as default/else. Bogdan webapprentice wrote:

Hi, Just need a sounding board to help me think this through. I want to check the current date to determine what "season" it is and

display the appropriate picture.

I define spring as 03/21/YYYY, summer as 06/21/YYYY, autumn as

09/21/YYYY, and winter as 12/21/YYYY.

I form a string for the current date and get a timestamp via mktime(). I also get the equivalent timestamps for the dates above for the

seasonal changes.

Then, I compare the current date to see if it's between the seasonal

dates.

The problem is when I go from 12/31/YYYY to 01/01/(YYYY+1). Since winter and spring dates are one year apart, the current date

timestamp comparison gets messed up and nothing displays.

How do I do a proper comparison? I was thinking of just seeing if the

current date timestamp is greater than each of the seasonal date timestamp, but it feels like I would miss something. Would I? Or is there another solution?

Thank you for your time. --Stephen

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