greet visitor by time of day

[evulness]

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function greetUser()
{
$hour = date('G');
if($hour >= 0 && $hour < 12){
// if hour is 12am or up to 12pm
$message = "Good Morning";
}elseif($hour >= 12 && $hour < 18){
// if hour is 12pm or up to 6pm
$message = "Good Afternoon";
}else{
// else, the hour must be from 18-23
$message = "Good Evening";}
return $message;
// return our message to what is was called from.
}
$greetings = greetUser();
if($context['user']['is_logged'])
{
echo $greetings.' '.$context['user']['name'];
}else{
echo $greetings.' '.$txt['welcome_guest'];
}

[Ianedres]

Useful snippet. I tried it out for my site but just couldn't come up with it fitting in the way I wanted.

I reduced it to just a few lines (without a function call and comments) but also added punctuation after the user's name, as well as adding a line break for guests to separate the greeting from the welcome_guest text string.

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$hour = date('G');

$greeting = 'Good Evening';

if($hour <= 12) $greeting = 'Good Morning'; elseif($hour <= 18) $greeting = 'Good Afternoon';

if($context['user']['is_logged'])
{
echo $greeting.' '.$context['user']['name'].'.';
}
else
{
echo $greeting.'.<br />'.$txt['welcome_guest'];
}

[platinumUWE]

what kind of block does this require ty

[JPDeni]

Either one of these are php blocks.

Most things you see in here are for php blocks.

[platinumUWE]

ty very much JDpeni for your advice appeciate it thankyou.

[troll]

I'd like to know how to adjust this to create more timed events. Instead of having only 3 options how can I have say 6?

Useful snippet. I tried it out for my site but just couldn't come up with it fitting in the way I wanted.

I reduced it to just a few lines (without a function call and comments) but also added punctuation after the user's name, as well as adding a line break for guests to separate the greeting from the welcome_guest text string.

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$hour = date('G');

$greeting = 'Good Evening';

if($hour <= 12) $greeting = 'Good Morning'; elseif($hour <= 18) $greeting = 'Good Afternoon';

if($context['user']['is_logged'])
{
echo $greeting.' '.$context['user']['name'].'.';
}
else
{
echo $greeting.'.<br />'.$txt['welcome_guest'];
}

[JPDeni]

It's all in the lines

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$greeting = 'Good Evening';

if($hour <= 12) $greeting = 'Good Morning';
elseif($hour <= 18) $greeting = 'Good Afternoon';


(I separated the lines to make them easier to read.)

What times do you want? 4am, 8am, 12noon, 4pm, 8pm, 12midnight?

Change it to

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$greeting = 'greeting for after 8pm';

if($hour <= 4) $greeting = 'Greeting for midnight to 4am';
elseif($hour <= 8) $greeting = 'Greeting for 4am to 8am';
elseif($hour <= 12) $greeting = 'Greeting for 8am to noon';
elseif($hour <= 16) $greeting = 'Greeting for noon to 4pm';
elseif($hour <= 20) $greeting = 'Greeting for 4pm to 8pm';


If you want different times, change the numbers, based on a 24-hour clock.

[troll]

Thanks JPDeni,

I have got it working now, it was taking a while and now Im really happy

[troll]

Actually the problem is the code is only giving the 1 time which is from...

Does this work on the forum time not the user time? What I am wondering is if the forum time is X but the user time is Z will it default to the forum time?

[JPDeni]

Does this work on the forum time not the user time?

It works on the server time.