PHP：如何根据时间和日期显示内容？

Question

I need to show contents based on a specific date and time in a php page. I need to show content1 upto a certain date, content2 for a limited time (between 2 defined dates), and content3 after the expiry date and time. Moreover, I need the possibility of changing the timezone, so the time should be provided by the server.

What I got so far is the following:

<?php 
$exp_date = "2009-07-20";
$exp_date2 = "2009-07-27";
$todays_date = date("Y-m-d");
$today = strtotime($todays_date);
$expiration_date = strtotime($exp_date);
$expiration_date2 = strtotime($exp_date2);
if ($expiration_date > $today)
{ ?>
<!-- pre-promotion week content -->
<?php } else if ($expiration_date2 > $today) { ?>
<!-- promotion week content -->
<?php } else { ?>
<!-- expired/post-promotion week content -->
<?php } ?>

The problem is that this script takes into account only the date and not the time.

Answer 1

You should be using the built-in DateTime objects: http://php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php

You should also be setting the timezone: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");

Or you can set the timezone per object:

$exp_date = new DateTime("2009-07-20", new DateTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
$exp_date2 = new DateTime("2009-07-27", new DateTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
$today = new DateTime();
if($today < $exp_date) {
   /*...*/
} elseif($today < $exp_date2) {
   /*...*/
} else {
   /*...*/
}

Note: I purposefully used two different timezones, to show that you can have your server in one zone, and work with dates from other zones. For example:

$ny = new datetime('2015-02-11 05:55:00', new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
$la = new datetime('2015-02-11 02:55:00', new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'));
var_dump($ny == $la); // bool(true)