Allow Accsess Between Certain Times

[scottyrob]

Hi there,

Is it possible to allow accsess to a certain part of the website on certain days at certain times? Say.. Monday 7-9 Pm?

Fet

[NogDog]

Sure.

<?php
$day = (int) date('N');
$hour = (int) date('H');
if($date < 1 or $date > 5 or $hour < 19 or $hour > 20)
{
  echo "<p>This page is only viewable Mon.-Fri. from 7pm to 9pm Eastern US time</p>";
  exit; // alternatively, don't exit but instead use an else block for the rest of the page
}
// rest of page here...

Of course, you'll want to flesh it out to make sure the HTML is complete and valid, but this should give you something to work with.

[yitzle]

Personally, I'd just do 'else echo file_get_contents(FILENAME);
Is that bad practice?

[bokeh]

Conditional statements are fine for this if you never change your timetable and the times are very simple. For more complicate timetables consider a look-up table.

[sb_]

something like this perhaps?

function TimeCheck($Allowed = array())
{
  $now = time();
  foreach($Allowed as $key => $value)
  {
	if($now > $Allowed[$key] && $now < $Allowed[++$key])
	{
		return true;
	}  
  }
  return false;
}

Disclamer, I'm tired and that is untested.

[yitzle]

I think its more like:

function TimeCheck($Allowed = array())
{
  $day = (int) date('N');
  $hour = (int) date('H'); 
  return $allowed[$day]->[$hour] == 1;
} 

or

$day = (int) date('N');
$hour = (int) date('H'); 
if ($allowed[$day]->[$hour]) echo file_get_contents("./MyPage.html");
else echo file_get_contents("./CheckLater"); 

[bokeh]

$allowed[$day]->[$hour] == 1; 

That's not valid syntax. What's it supposed to be doing?

[yitzle]

Oops. That's Perl.
It (in Perl) would check to see if the hour inside the day is set to '1'.