Question

I have a task to create a script using php to display open and closed during the correct times. So far I have the time working correcty and this would be fine if the business was open during this time for 7 days a week. However the scenerio for the project is the business is open mon-fri 7:00am – 5:30 pm then open saturdays 7:00am to 1:00pm and closed sundays. I thought I could use a date function w since is displays 0-6 and call if

if($date >= 0 && $date < 6)

but that didn’t work. Here is the code I have so far

<?php

date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$open = "700";
$close = "1730";
$time = date('Gi');
$day = date('w');

if ($time >= $open && $time <= $close) {
    echo "We are Open";
} else {
    echo "We are closed";
}

?>

Answer 1

If you’re not using a database you can hardcode each day of the week in some easily parsable format:

$schedule[0] = "700-1730";
$schedule[1] = "700-1730";
$schedule[2] = "700-1730";
$schedule[3] = "700-1730";
$schedule[4] = "700-1730";

$schedule[5] = "700-1300";
$schedule[6] = "0";

$today = $schedule[date('w')];

list($open, $close) = explode('-', $schedule);

$now = (int) date('Gi');

$state = 'Open';

if ($today[0] == 0 || $now < (int) $today[0] || $now > (int) $today[1]) {
  $state = 'Closed';
}

Just wrote the code, didn’t test it yet.

Good luck!