Greeting the Guests & Users

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Dec 28th, 2004

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mikeSQL

This tutorial shows how to greet your visitors depending on what time of day it is. If it's morning, it greets your visitor with "Good Morning!" If it's afternoon, it greets them with "Good Afternoon!" Magic? Noooo! Just PHP!

We will start by looking at the entire script and then dissecting it afterward.
The Tutorial of this so you cn understand will be piosted in the Tutorials Section of this site.

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<?php
 
//Here we define out main variables
$welcome_string="Welcome!";
$numeric_date=date("G");
 
//Start conditionals based on military time
if($numeric_date>=0&&$numeric_date<=11)
$welcome_string="Good Morning!";
else if($numeric_date>=12&&$numeric_date<=17)
$welcome_string="Good Afternoon!";
else if($numeric_date>=18&&$numeric_date<=23)
$welcome_string="Good Evening!";
 
//Display our greeting
echo "$welcome_string";
 
?>