Automating The Uploading Of Images Based On Time Of Day

[jgw899]

Hey Wicked Fire members!

I have a question for any programmers out there who might know something about automating this simple task...

I would like to automate the uploading of a new header image on my website depending on the time of day. During business hours I would like a header image with my phone number to be displayed, and when it's not normal business hours I want users to fill out my contact form so I would like to display a header image without the phone number.

My website is on Joomla, so if there was a plugin that I'm not aware of that would work for me. Or if there is another way to do this I'm interested in hearing any thoughts on how I could do this.

Thanks in advance for any help in this matter!

 

[smartkid]

if wordpress
you can use wp robot

 

[jgw899]

yeah like I said it's on joomla...so that won't work for me but thanks.

 

[mattseh]

cronjob that moves the image. literally 2 lines of cron with the mv command

 

[Jake1125]

What mattseh said. It's not difficult, assuming you are using Linux. Google for "crontab" and "linux mv command". Done!

 

[jgw899]

thanks guys! appreciate the information, going to forward this to my programming "geeks"

 

[hehejo]

No experience with Joomla but...

$hour = date('G');
if (($hour > 08) and ($hour < 17))
{
echo '<img src="image1" />';
}
else
{
echo '<img src="image2" />';
}