Embedding a day of the week sound, image or saying

Using the if...elseif
statements in PHP

echo date("D M Y H:i:s");

This statement will give you the day, month year, hour:minutes:seconds at this exact time.

If you would like to write a script that gives you the day of the week, we can simply use the date() statement to output the date(D) in our HTML. We can do that with any of the date functions. Below is a list of date functions that can be used:

• In this activity there are 7 images, one for each day, names monday.gif, tuesday.gif, wednesday.gif etc. Download the images to use to complete this from here
• There are 7 sounds to complete this tutorial, also located here.

1. Open up your PHP editor. Set up your normal html tags for the head , end of head, and body end of body, etc.

2. Insert your PHP tags for opening of your script and closing of the script:

3. We will use the If... else if statement to determine what today is. this will test the date one at a time, and set the sound name and picture name acording to the weekday.

if (date("l")=="Monday") {
    $song="monday.wav";
    $image="monday.jpg";
     }

4. We can go further and give an alternative  so that if the statement is not true, it will give an alternate response. In this case we can test to see if the day is Monday.

elseif (date("l") == "Tuesday") {
    $song="tuesday.wav";
    $image="tuesday.jpg";
}

5. We will need to go beyond, because the rest of the week, both statements are false. I can write one per each day of the week through Saturday.

6. Once you have your script through saturday, you can put your last alternative as an else echo statement :

else {$song="sunday.wav";
$image="sunday.jpg";
}

7. We need output statements so that the page displays our image and plays our sound. These are echo statements, where the HTML is written in quotes and the variable is outside of the quotes so it get relaced with the day filename.

 echo "";
echo "         loop=false volume=100 hidden=true>
       <BGSOUND src=".$song."> <br>        ";
 

8. Close your PHP statement and decorate your page. above and below the info. Upload your info to a PHP server and you are on your way!