Rotating Content on Schedule

[jsarber]

I know I've done this before on a past website but for the life of me, I cannot remember how I did it. I would like to schedule a small portion of content on the site to change during one hour each day. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jlhaslip]

php scripting can do that.

Use the date/time functions and echo the contents according to the time of day.

[falkencreative]

You should also be able to do this with javascript (though obviously it is dependent on having Javascript enabled): http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptdate.php

[NuCoder]

Javascript If Else statement?

[jsarber]

I don't suppose someone could point me in the direction of a php/time/date/echo tutorial?

[jsarber]

Ok. I've went digging through my archives of past website files and found the code I used:

 

<?php
             $dir = 'dbi/';
             $new_file = $dir.date('d-m-y').'.php';
             if(file_exists($new_file)) { /* if there's a file matching today's date, include it */
             include $new_file;
             }

             else { /* include a random file if there's no file for today */
             $files = glob($dir.'*.php');
             include $files[rand(0, count($files)-1)];
             }
             ?>

 

How can I change this to schedule according to both date and time? Is this possible?