Question

I’m new to PHP and I have this homework to do. The teacher asked us to display a greeting message to the user which should look like:

Good(Morning/Evening/Night), username, actual date(taken from the system).

PHP:

$username = "Foo";

if (date("H") > 0 && date("H") < 12) {
    $msg = "Good day";
    $image = "r_sun";
}
else if (date("H") >= 12 && date("H") < 18) {
    $msg = "Good evening";
    $image = "sun";
}
else {
    $msg = "Good Night";
    $image = "moon";
}

if (date("d") == 1) {
    $c = "st";
} 
else if (date("d") == 2) {
    $c = "nd";
}
else if (date("d") == 3) {
    $c = "rd";
}
else {
    $c = "th";
}

echo $msg . "<img src='images/" . $image . ".png' border='0' />, " . $username . "! Today is " . date("F") . " " . date("d") . $c . ", " . date("Y");

My problem is with the image. I have to show 3 different images depending on which message is being displayed (Good morning, evening or night). For some reason the image won’t load on the page.

Answer 1

You have to add ../ before the images path on your src attribute like this:

<img src='../images/" . $image . ".png' border='0' />

This means that your image path is not on the same directory as your script, like you doing.

Plus, just a tip, place the date values on an variable:

$h = date("H");
$d = date("d");

if ($h > 0 && $h < 12) {
    $msg = "Good day";
    $image = "r_sun";
}

if ($d== 1) {
    $c = "st";
} 

Will clear your code 😉