Question

I’m making a page that displays some info in a table and I want that table to have a darker background on the entries from the night time.

I’m thinking of something like:

    if ( ($timestamp < strtotime('2012-02-16 20:00:00') && ($timestamp > strtotime('2012-02-16 08:00:00') ){}

But I want this to function 24/7 all year. How do I make the date any date (* – * – *) ?

Answer 1

Not sure what format $timestamp is in, but if it’s in Unix timestamp format (epoch seconds), you could do this:

$hour = date('H', $timestamp);
if ($hour >= 8 && $hour < 20)

If it’s not in Unix timestamp format, perhaps you could make it so in your query, using the UNIX_TIMESTAMP() function.