dhotchin — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:15:28 +0000

Thanks everyone. I have added the start and eng tags and it works as ASP. But when i use the below code the page will not display and shows "HTTP 500 Internal Server error" Does anyone no what i'm doing wrong. PLUS i only want people to use this at 13:00 - 14:00 and 15:30 - 8:30.

thank you all for your time

<?php
 startHour = 17  
  endHour = 20  

  curHour = DatePart("h", Date)
   
  IF (curHour >= startHour AND curHour <= endHour) 
    ' It is appropriate time, do code to display web site 
  ELSE
    print "Sorry, you shouldn't be chatting right now.\n"; 
  ENDIF 
?>

forwardtrends — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52:21 +0000

good call .. I normally use a global include on all pages that will kick you back out to the login if the session is dead or the reffering is invalid.

Greg K — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52:13 +0000

I don't think a redirect would be a good idea, as the student could just bookmark the redirected page at a good time, and then go back to the bookmark at any time.

If you do use the redirect, have the "forum.asp" check to make sure it is being called by the file you put forwardtrends code into. (this would prevent direct linking).

-Greg

forwardtrends — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:43:27 +0000

heres one you can adjust if you like - on your entry page to the forum, simply redirect based on an if condition like so:

dHour = Hour(Now)
dDay = weekday(now)
if dHour=0 then strtimenow="out"

if dDay > 1 Then
if dDay < 7 Then
If dHour >= 9 Then
If dHour <= 16 Then
strtimenow="in"
Else
strtimenow="out"
End If
End If
End If
End if

If strtimenow="in" then response.redirect "forum.asp"
else response.redirect "notopen.asp"

Greg K — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:12:16 +0000

Here is something that might work, sorry if some of the formatting is wrong. More info can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vsfctdatepart.asp

-Greg

  startHour = 17  
  endHour = 20  

  curHour = DatePart("h", Date)
   
  IF (curHour >= startHour AND curHour <= endHour) 
    ' It is appropriate time, do code to display web site 
  ELSE
    print "Sorry, you shouldn't be chatting right now.\n"; 
  ENDIF

Greg K — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:04:27 +0000

Well, I completely missed that huh? LOL Sorry. Let me check, I'm sure can find something similar for ASP.

dhotchin — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:02:21 +0000

If i'm using ASP page what do i have to change the code from PHP? thanks for that.

Greg K — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:58:22 +0000

Try something like the following. You could modify it to also use minutes as well. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getdate.php for more information.

<?php
  $startHour = 17;  // Use 24Hr format (0-23), 17 = 5pm
  $endHour = 20;    // 20 = 8pm

  $curTime = getdate();
  
  if ($curTime['hours'] >= $startHour && $curTime['hours'] <= $endHour)
  {
    // It is appropriate time, do code to display web site
    include ('chat_program.php');
  }
  else
  {
    print \"Sorry, you shouldn't be chatting right now.\n\";
  }    
?>

-Greg