Question

I have a list that’s being populated from the database it’s sorted using the time field by ASC dates. I’m using the <?php foreach() :?> to loop through and populate the list .

<li id="events">
Time: <?php echo $venue['time']; ?> 
Event: <?php echo $venue['location']; ?> 
</li> 

I have a variable in php called ($time_left ) that keeps track of the days left till each event begins I calculate this by taking the time field from the database subtracting today’s current date with php date() when this reaches 0 how can I remove the expired event from the start of the list and append it to the end.

This can be done on page refresh I don’t need it to be asynchronous. Can I do this just in PHP with DOM manipulation? or should I use Jquery and if so how do I pass the $time_left variable from PHP to my Jquery script?

Answer 1

this looks simple enough. I hope i didn’t misunderstand something. it should be something like this.

foreach($venues as $k => $venue) {
    $passEvents = array();
    $currentTime = time();
    if(($venue['time'] - $currentTime) <= 0) {
        $passEvents[] = $venue;
    } else {
        echo '<li id="events">';
        echo 'Time: '.$venue['time']; 
        echo 'Event: '.$venue['location']; 
        echo '</li>';
    }
}

foreach($passEvents as $k => $venue) {
    echo '<li id="events">';
    echo 'Time: '.$venue['time']; 
    echo 'Event: '.$venue['location']; 
    echo '</li>';
}