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tactics

10-07-2010 11:53 PM

Creating a 6-Day Cycle Script

Hey everyone,

I'm new around here so I hope I don't break any rules by just coming right out with it and asking for help.

Anyway, I was wondering how I could go about using the PHP date function to some how output a number (1 through 6). This seems virtually impossible because every week will be different. So really, it's just about changing a digit each day - not including weekends. Does anybody have incite on how to go about doing this? Or is this an impossible effort?

delayedinsanity

10-09-2010 08:24 PM

Is this what you're trying to do?

php Code:

// Outputs 6 for today (saturday)
echo date( 'w' );

tactics

10-09-2010 10:34 PM

Almost, though I want to output what day it is along with a number (1-6)

For example, something like:

"Today is Saturday, cycle day 4"

The 6 numbers would have to loop Monday through Friday, probably could accomplish this with a start date / end date. Basically the "cycle day" would not be the same for each week. If Friday was cycle day 4, then Monday would be cycle day 5.

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