Can I use PHP time to swith my ads on or off?

[andrewshim]

I have a page that calls my Adsense codes from a script folder using the "include" statement. I'd like to switch off one particular Adsense block from midnight to 8am (US time).

Is this possible using PHP? If it's possible, do I refer to my server time? Any examples would be most helpful.

[jatar_k]

>> Is this possible using PHP?

absolutely

>> do I refer to my server time?

yes, keep an eye because your server may be in a different timezone

something like so maybe (test it first because I didn't)

$hour = date('G');
if ($hour >= 0 && $hour < 8) {
// ad code here
}

a quick one but I think it's right

reference
[php.net...]

[londrum]

bear in mind that it won't be foolproof... as the user might still have the old page in his cache. you might want to make it uncachable.

[andrewshim]

Thanks jatar... seems to be okay. Yay!