Question

I have an issue with PHP files displaying information site. I’m working on a localhost and my .htaccess file is correctly configured to display .php files, as a .php file works on an html file.

But, when I tried to make a switch variable to switch between different pages dependent on a date…

<?php
switch(date('l')) {
   case 'Sunday': $page = 'sunday.html'; break;
   case 'Monday': $page = 'monday.html'; break;
   case 'Tuesday': $page = 'tuesday.html'; break;
   case 'Wednesday': $page = 'wednesday.html'; break;
   case 'Thursday': $page = 'thursday.html'; break;
   case 'Friday': $page = 'friday.html'; break;
   case 'Saturday': $page = 'saturday.html'; break;
}
echo file_get_contents($page);
?>

..then the php include code inside the .html would not work. Same with php echo, it would not display. Where might I be going wrong? My index.html (where onair.php works and is displayed on index.html) links to /programmes/schedule.html which then links to a respective page on a given day. There, the PHP code that is the same as in index.html does not display… It is simply commented in Google Chrome.

Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.

Answer 1

You need to include the pages instead. Neither file_get_contents nor echo will execute PHP script.

<?php
switch(date('l')) {
   case 'Sunday': $page = 'sunday.html'; break;
   case 'Monday': $page = 'monday.html'; break;
   case 'Tuesday': $page = 'tuesday.html'; break;
   case 'Wednesday': $page = 'wednesday.html'; break;
   case 'Thursday': $page = 'thursday.html'; break;
   case 'Friday': $page = 'friday.html'; break;
   case 'Saturday': $page = 'saturday.html'; break;
}

include $page;
?>

Of course, you can make it simpler, too:

<?php
include strtolower(date('l')) . '.html';
?>