Image of the Day PHP Tutorial

In this tutorial shows you how to display image of the day. You can adapt this script to display quote of the day, knowledge of the day or something else you want. You don't have to change image everyday just change images once a week. 

What to do?

1. Find what today is? using date function and keep answer in variable name "$today".
2. Compare $today with name of the day.
3. Display "Today is " ... " and display image of the day.
4. test it. Try to change your machine date and see the result!

$today=date(l); // Find what today is? using date function

{code type=codetype}

// If today is Monday displays message "Today is Monday" and displays image1.gif
if($today==Monday){// Compare $today with name of the day.
echo "Today is Monday";
echo "<BR>"; // Line break
echo "<img src='images/image1.gif'>"; // images keep in forder "images"
}

{/code}

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If You want to show 1 month 31 images replace with this code

{code type=codetype}
$today=date(d); // display date "01", "02", "03"..."15", "16" ....
if($today==01){ .......

elseif($today==15){ .......

until $today==31

{/code}

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{code type=codetype}

<?
$today=date(l);// Find what today is? using date function

if($today==Monday){
echo "Today is Monday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image1.gif'>";
}

elseif($today==Tuesday){
echo "Today is Tuesday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image2.gif'>";
}

elseif($today==Wednesday){
echo "Today is Wednesday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image3.gif'>";
}

elseif($today==Thursday){
echo "Today is Thursday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image4.gif'>";
}

elseif($today==Friday){
echo "Today is Friday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image5.gif'>";
}

elseif($today==Saturday){
echo "Today is Saturday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image6.gif'>";
}

elseif($today==Sunday){
echo "Today is Sunday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image7.gif'>";
}

?>

{/code}