style switch by time

[marcus_s]

hi. i like to switch the background color and other things in 4images to bright and dark by daytime (day & night).

i got this:

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<?php
 $hour = date(G);
 
 if ($hour > 7 && $hour <= 20) { // von vier bis sechs
          include "tag.inc";
 } else if ($hour > 20 || $hour <= 7)  { // zwischen 21 und vier
          include "nacht.inc";
 }
?>
that isn´t possible.


i got these error messages:


Warning: Unknown(nacht.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /…/gallery/includes/template.php(101) : eval()'d code on line 37

Warning: Unknown(nacht.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /…/gallery/includes/template.php(101) : eval()'d code on line 37

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening 'nacht.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /…/gallery/includes/template.php(101) : eval()'d code on line 37



what do i have to do to make it work?

thanks,

marcus

[marcus_s]

oh. found this now:

http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=4295.0

gonna try it first.

marcus

[Chris]

The code you posted will switch it based on the server's time and not the visitor.  Someone half a world away sitting at their computer in full daylight will see a night theme...

[marcus_s]

yea i know but thats ok. my client clients are mostly german.

but im thinking about a javascript solution but i think that i need a php-script because i got some javascript-code to parse (browser-selecion). don´t think that thats gonna work with java … er 



the php-script wont work anyway (http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=4295.0) - now i got 5 error messages.

any clues?

thank you, marcus

[Chris]

Open global.php and locate this code:

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//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Generate Setting --------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$sql = "SELECT setting_name, setting_value
        FROM ".SETTINGS_TABLE;
$result = $site_db->query($sql);
if (!$result) {
  echo $lang['no_settings'];
  exit;
}
while ($row = $site_db->fetch_array($result)) {
  $config[$row['setting_name']] = $row['setting_value'];
}
$site_db->free_result();
Add after it:

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$hour = date("G");
if( $hour > 7 && $hour <= 20 )
  $config['template_dir'] = "day_template";
else
  $config['template_dir'] = "night_template";
Where day_template is the name of the template directory that holds your daytime template, etc.

[marcus_s]

chris.

that sounds good to me.
so if i use your code - the  4images system will choose the template by time?

the only thing i need to do is to create a day and a night folder with the templates in it.

gonna try it.

thanks

m

[marcus_s]

ok. works. thanks. 

but you're right i need a js solution to determine the client´s time. working on that.
this one´s gonna do it for now so thank you!

marcus