Loading diffentet page each day

Hiya Guys.

I have done a quick search on your forum, but could not find a suitable answer.

What i want is a new page loading every day. So the index of my site will be index.php, and i want to tell the PHP page to load page1.php/htm if it is day 1, page2.php/htm if it is day 2 and so on.

These pages will be stored on the same server, but may be contained in their own directory.

I believe that some arithmacy is involved, and that i have to base the calculations on the time or date functions, however i have not used these before, so would appreciate any help in this area.

Cheers in advance for your help

<?php
$day=date(z);// day of the year 0-365
$page="page".$day.".php";
header ("location: $page");// redirect to the page.
?>


FYI: http://us3.php.net/date

<?php
$day=date(z);// day of the year 0-365
$page="page".$day.".php";
header ("location: $page");// redirect to the page.
?>


FYI: http://us3.php.net/date

Thank you for helping. This is what i wanted, but initially i got an error about the header. I changed this to 'include()' statement and took out location. It all seems to work but from one thing. When i preview it on my server, " " seems to display before the contents of the requested page.

post exactly what you did.

Sorry guys, i got it sorted out. It was totally my mistake.

It was the way i coded the extra pages, mixing up the DOCTYPE with PHP code. After removing the html stuff and just leaving the <?php---?>, it started to work.

I'd like to thank you once again for helping me with this, it is much appreciated.

Regards

$day=date(z);// day of the year 0-365

This needs to be quoted.


$day=date('z');// day of the year 0-365

aedrin ....

works fine for me without the quotes.

Although it works fine, it should trigger a notice in the error logs as it's looking for a constant. If the constant isn't found, it then looks for the (can't think of the name) value of the date you're looking for

This is one of the current issues of PHP.

It is far too lenient in its syntax parsing.

I understand PHP is meant to be easy to use. But allowing syntax errors is just plain wrong.

I suppose they shot themselves in the foot by doing this. Because if they ever want to change it to an error, and not a notice, they'd break half the websites out there.

An interesting topic ...

I wonder how many other things like that we could find.

Just load a website, browse it. Then check the error logs.

There's quite a few PEAR modules out there that will spam your error logs. (MDB2 for example)

One of the reasons I don't use PEAR unless I can't find an alternative (self made or otherwise).