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me!
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by me! » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:36 am
What I want to do is simple but I just cant get it to work
I have six event dates that I want to list on the page and distinguish when events have passed.
It is almost working like this but I would like to have the months but that did not work?
Showing the "Next" event would also be nice!
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<?php
//put event show dates here...
$date_1 = "5 13, 2007"; //first show
$date_2 = "6 24, 2007"; //next show
$date_3 = "7 15, 2007"; // ect...
$date_4 = "8 5, 2007";
$date_5 = "9 30, 2007";
$date_6 = "10 14, 2007";
$today = date("n d, Y"); // 10 21, 2007
if ($date_1 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_1 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_1</b><br />"; }
if ($date_2 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_2 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_2</b><br />"; }
if ($date_3 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_3 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_3</b><br />"; }
if ($date_4 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_4 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_4</b><br />"; }
if ($date_5 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_5 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_5</b><br />"; }
if ($date_6 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_6 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_6</b><br />"; }
?>
Oren
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by Oren » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:40 am
You want to sort the dates too, or just mark the old dates with " - past"?
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by feyd » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:49 am
Is this information coming from a database? If so, are the dates stored in a DATE (or variant thereof) type? If so, you can sort them there. If it's not a DATE type, convert them to one. If it's not a database you'll need to standardize the date more (leading zeros) and reorder the date information so PHP can sort the information easily. Specifically the year must proceed the month which must proceed the day.
me!
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by me! » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:35 pm
Don't want o sort them just sho when they are past.
And there is no db
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by feyd » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:39 pm
You still need to convert them to a uniform format so PHP can do comparisons. Right now, they aren't uniform.
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by me! » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:20 pm
This is what I came up with:
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<?php
//put show dates here...
$date_1 = "May 13, 2007"; //Format "June 6, 2007"
$date_2 = "June 24, 2007"; //next show
$date_3 = "July 15, 2007"; // ect...
$date_4 = "August 5, 2007";
$date_5 = "September 30, 2007";
$date_6 = "October 14, 2007";
$sort_date_1 = "2007 05 13"; //Format Year "2007" Mounth "06" Day "06"
$sort_date_2 = "2007 06 24"; //next show
$sort_date_3 = "2007 07 15"; // ect...
$sort_date_4 = "2007 08 05";
$sort_date_5 = "2007 09 30";
$sort_date_6 = "2007 10 14";
/////////////////////////don't edit past this line///////////////////
$today = date("Y m d"); // 2007 10 21
if ($sort_date_1 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_1 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_1</b><br />"; }
if ($sort_date_2 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_2 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_2</b><br />"; }
if ($sort_date_3 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_3 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_3</b><br />"; }
if ($sort_date_4 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_4 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_4</b><br />"; }
if ($sort_date_5 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_5 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_5</b><br />"; }
if ($sort_date_6 < $today) {echo "<span class=\"style1\">$date_6 - past</span><br />"; } else { echo "<b>$date_6</b><br />"; }
?>