Is this possible with a <Xen IF>? Message displayed based on day

[DaveL]

Is there an <if> command I could use to have different text displayed depending on the day of the week?

Eg:

<if Monday>
Hello its Monday </if>
<if Tuesday>
Hello its Tuesday</if>

If that is possible, Is it possible to break it down even further, is there an <if> command for time of day?

Eg:
<if 0800-1100>
Good Morning!</if>
<if 1100-1300>
Its Lunchtime!</if>

I used something similar many years ago n vbulletin, however it was built into a skin I purchased so cant go back and look at the code.

Fingers crossed it will be possible!

Dave

 

[DaveL]

Put it in quotes:

{xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} < '19:30'

Ah, That seems to have done the job

Thank you

 

[DaveL]

<xen:if is="{xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} >= '00:01' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} < '20:30' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'D'} == 'Fri'">
<a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS"><img src="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/images/dcrlogo.jpg" style="width: 180px; height:155px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></a><br><a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS">DCR Non-Stop</a>
</xen:if>

Can you see any reason why this wouldnt be working? Its currently 02:04 hrs on Friday morning and nothing is being displayed.

All my others seem to follow the same format and they work, but this has got me stumped!

 

[DaveL]

Just been having a play around, and if I turn it from

<xen:if is="{xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} >= '00:00' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} < '19:30' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'D'} == 'Fri'">
<a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS"><img src="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/images/dcrlogo.jpg" style="width: 180px; height:155px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></a><br><a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS">DCR Non-Stop</a>
</xen:if>

to

<xen:if is="{xen:time $serverTime, 'G'} >= '00' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'G'} < '19' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'D'} == 'Fri'">
<a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS"><img src="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/images/dcrlogo.jpg" style="width: 180px; height:155px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></a><br><a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS">DCR Non-Stop</a>
</xen:if>

Cant believe it was all working fine the other day! Any ideas at all, im stumped!

 

[Jake Bunce]

It works fine for me.

Maybe it isn't really Friday. The current day / time is based on your user's time zone preference:

http://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences

If you are logged out then it uses this time zone:

Admin CP -> Home -> Options -> Basic Board Information -> Guests' Time Zone

You can add some debug code to your templates to see what each time function is returning:

G:i = {xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'}<br />
D = {xen:time $serverTime, 'D'}<br />

 

[DaveL]

Thanks Jake.

Seems to be working fine this morning. When I was playing around with it last night, it was accepting that it was Friday, just didnt like have minutes because it worked fine if I changed it to just hours.

Will see if the same happens again tonight!

 

[DaveL]

How frustrating! Its stopped working again!

Checked all the settings for timezones and they are all correct. Also tried the debug code and it comes back with:

G:i = 9:44
D = Thu

<xen:if is="{xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} >= '00:01' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'G:i'} < '19:29' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'D'} == 'Thu'">
<img src="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/images/dcrlogo.jpg" style="width: 140px; height:100px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></a>
<br><strong><a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS">DCR Non-Stop</a></strong>
</xen:if>

Thats the current code im using, Can you see anything that might stop it from appearing?

The strange thing is, if I change it to

<xen:if is="{xen:time $serverTime, 'G'} >= '00' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'G'} < '19' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'D'} == 'Thu'">
<img src="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/images/dcrlogo.jpg" style="width: 140px; height:100px; margin-bottom: 5px;"></a>
<br><strong><a href="{$xenOptions.boardUrl}/pages/OnAir__DCRNS">DCR Non-Stop</a></strong>
</xen:if>

It works fine. It sometimes dosent appear to like the minutes Is there any other way to work around this at all?

 

[James]

Have you tried separating the G:i?
<xen:if is="{xen:time $serverTime, 'G'} = '00' AND {xen:time $serverTime, 'i'} = '01'">
//
</xen:if>

 

[DaveL]

Its crazy! Just been out for a run, and now ive come back its working fine again!
Will try that out next time it stops though, thanks James