PHP Time and day display

[inductinve soul]

<?php
$d=date("D"); if ($d=="Fri") echo "Today is Friday,";
elseif ($d=="Sat") echo "Today is Saturday,";
elseif ($d=="Sun") echo "Today is Sunday,";
elseif ($d=="Mon") echo "Today is Monday,";
elseif ($d=="Tue") echo "Today is Tuesday,";
elseif ($d=="Wed") echo "Today is Wednesday,";
elseif ($d=="Thu") echo "Today is Thursday,";
else echo "How maddening the script has a error!";
?> <?php echo date("F j, Y, g:i a"); ?>

Now the script works... but it would be nice if I didn't have two PHP scripts running. I am actually quite embarrassed that I could not figure out how to combine the two after half an hour of playing around, so any help would be appreciated..

[Livewire]

<?php
$d=date("D"); if ($d=="Fri") echo "Today is Friday,";
elseif ($d=="Sat") echo "Today is Saturday,";
elseif ($d=="Sun") echo "Today is Sunday,";
elseif ($d=="Mon") echo "Today is Monday,";
elseif ($d=="Tue") echo "Today is Tuesday,";
elseif ($d=="Wed") echo "Today is Wednesday,";
elseif ($d=="Thu") echo "Today is Thursday,";
else echo "How maddening the script has a error!";
?> <?php echo date("F j, Y, g:i a"); ?>

Now the script works... but it would be nice if I didn't have two PHP scripts running. I am actually quite embarrassed that I could not figure out how to combine the two after half an hour of playing around, so any help would be appreciated..

<?php
$d=date("D"); if ($d=="Fri") echo "Today is Friday,";
elseif ($d=="Sat") echo "Today is Saturday,";
elseif ($d=="Sun") echo "Today is Sunday,";
elseif ($d=="Mon") echo "Today is Monday,";
elseif ($d=="Tue") echo "Today is Tuesday,";
elseif ($d=="Wed") echo "Today is Wednesday,";
elseif ($d=="Thu") echo "Today is Thursday,";
else echo "How maddening the script has a error!";

echo date("F j, Y, g:i a"); ?>

All I did was take out the closing ?> and the new <?php tag near the end; if you start it with <?php anything in the middle is processed as php until you put ?>, so if there's more than one script, put them all in the same <?php ?> brackets.


Edit: Just to clarify though, my opinion is if it works, don't mess with it. I don't think there's much of a performance loss by having too much info.

[misson]

Why not simply:

echo strftime('Today is %A, %B %e, %Y, %l:%M %p'); 

or:

echo 'Today is ', date('l, F j, Y, g:i a'); 

[xgreenberetx]

How bout using the php "case" to execute the different days

[inductinve soul]

Thank you so much! The reason I have it set up the way I do is so I can put custom messages in for each day as I want to. as for simplifying it... I like the date format like that so it shows more details.

[misson]

You can also use arrays for custom messages or switch statements as xgreenberetx suggests.

$dayMessages = array(
    'Monday' => 'Born',
    'Tuesday' => 'Christened',
    'Wednesday' => 'Married',
    'Thursday' => 'Took ill',
    'Friday' => 'Grew worse',
    'Saturday' => 'Died',
    'Sunday' => 'Buried',
);

$day = date('l');
echo $dayMessages[$day], ' on ', $day, '.'; 

Arrays are more performant than a sequence of "if" statements; switch statements are clearer as to purpose and potentially more performant.