Season check script, is it correct? plese help.

Echoes today season from four given date windows (not for summer spring...)

[hisac]

<?php
function SeasonCheck()
{
if (date("m-d") >= "04-16" && date("m-d") <= "06-30") {
return "low_1";
}
if (date("m-d") >= "09-01" && date("m-d") <= "12-21") {
return "low_2";
}
if (date("m-d") >= "07-01" && date("m-d") <= "08-31") {
return "high_1";
}
if (date("m-d") >= "12-22" && date("m-d") <= "04-15") {
return "high_2";
}
}
echo SeasonCheck();
?>

[jatar_k]

is it working? if not what is it doing?

[chirp]

I don't see how this could ever be working:

if (date("m-d") >= "12-22" && date("m-d") <= "04-15") {

To use >= and <= you need to have scalar values rather than strings for a start, but that doesn't help in this case when you're wrapping around the end of the year. It also discriminates against either the northern- or southern-hemisphere ;)

[hisac]

hello,

dates in php is a little bit confusing to me.

I think the scrpt is working.
but how do i know it is not doing 0 = 0.
or is it really 10-30 > 11-01?
is the another way to do the same?

thanks

[hisac]

Well, this is not to check wheather it is spring or winter i just want to know if todays date is within those periods for the active year.

Thank You.

[chirp]

This is the approach I'd take:

$day = date('j'); 
$month = date('n'); 
switch($month) { 
 case 1: 
 case 2: 
 case 3: 
 return "high_2"; 
 break; 
 case 4: 
 return ($day <= 15)? "high_2" : "low_1"; 
 break; 
 case 5: 
 case 6: 
 return "low_1"; 
 break; 
 case 7: 
 ... 
}

;)

[hisac]

Yes, it makes more sense.

Thank you.