Date Detection with Automated Message

[electricbrick]

Looking for a resource to automatically detect the server date (much like the Genesis right side extras does) but to also output a message based on the day of the week (i.e. open or closed). Anyone know of a simple PHP script or plugin that'll accomplish this?

[Stewart]

Hi,

This is one simple way you can display message on the day of the week:

add_action( 'genesis_footer', 'sc_date_closed' );
function sc_date_closed() {
	if( date ( 'w' ) == 5 ) {
		echo 'closed';
	}
	else {
		echo 'open';
	}
}

All you will need to do is change the hook location from genesis_footer to where you want to display, and then just change the day, in the example above I used 5 which is friday.

Sunday - Saturday = 0-6

This is just a simple example but hope it puts you on the right track.

Stewart

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[Brad Dalton]

I forked Stewart's code and used it to create a widget for each day of the week.

For styling it uses Brian Gardners colored content box CSS code so all you need to do is add the CSS code to the end of your child themes style.css file.

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[electricbrick]

Holy smokes, Stewart & Brad -- you guys really came through. Thanks a ton!

I took it a little further and amended the code to work in the header widget area and output the WordPress date:

add_action( 'genesis_header_right', 'week_day_widgets' );
function week_day_widgets() {
if ( is_home || is_single() || is_page || is_archive )
    if ( date ( 'w' ) == 1 ) {
        echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'mondays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .mondays-widget -->';
	}
	else if( date ( 'w' ) == 2 ) {
        echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'tuesdays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .tuesdays-widget -->';
	}
	else if( date ( 'w' ) == 3 ) {
         echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'wednesdays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .wednesdays-widget -->';
	}
	else if( date ( 'w' ) == 4 ) {
         echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'thursdays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .thursdays-widget -->';
	}
	else if( date ( 'w' ) == 5 ) {
         echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'fridays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .fridays-widget -->';
        }
        else if( date ( 'w' ) == 6 ) {
         echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'saturdays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .saturdays-widget -->';
        }
        else if( date ( 'w' ) == 0 ) {
        echo '<div class="today"><p>Today is ' . date(get_option('date_format')) . '</p>';
        dynamic_sidebar( 'sundays-widget' );
        echo '</div><!-- end .sundays-widget -->';
        }

}

[Brad Dalton]

Tested and works perfectly.

I removed all the conditionals so it displays site wide.

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[electricbrick]

Brad, you may want to note in your post that the block of code I contributed doesn't contain Brian's content box styling.

[Brad Dalton]

Ok, i'll add that thanks.

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