[pmwiki-users] php/strftime question

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Sep 21 09:35:26 CDT 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:13:03AM -0500, Jon Haupt wrote:
>    Hi all,
> 
>    Why doesn't this work:
> 
>    $blogposttime = 'strftime("%H", $page["ctime"])';
>    if ($blogposttime == "22") $FmtPV['$BlogTimeOfDay'] = "It was getting
>    late";
> 
>    When I try using {$BlogTimeOfDay} in a page, nothing is returned.  All I
>    want to do is have the time of day displayed not in numeric fashion, but
>    using a custom message corresponding to the time of day.  Perhaps I
>    misunderstood strftime?  Or I have something mixed up?


Surely you mean something like:

    $blogposthour = strftime('%H', $page['ctime']);
    if ($blogposthour == '22') $FmtPV['$BlogTimeOfDay'] = "'It was getting late'";

Note especially the single quotes inside of double quotes in the 
$FmtPV value, because $FmtPV is called with eval().

Another way to do this might be to use a lookup array:

   $BlogPostHours = array(7 => 'It was early', 22 => 'It was getting late');

   $FmtPV['$BlogTimeOfDay'] = 
    '$GLOBALS["BlogPostHours"][strftime("%H", $page["ctime"])]';

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