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I have written an XSSI solution to displaying variable content on a web page, depending on what time it is and what day it is. It works, but it's a little ugly.
I'm wondering if there is a more elegant way to write it.
The issue is that, at differing times each day, a particular graphic is supposed to appear. This graphic leads people to a service that is only available during certain hours. When it's closed, we don't want anything to appear. We are open M-Th from 1-9, F-S from 2-6, and Sunday from 2-10.
As I said, I wrote something that works. But I was hoping to learn that my way is too "verbose." Is there a more elegant way to say the following?:
<!--#config timefmt="%A %H"-->
<!--#if expr="(\"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Friday/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Saturday/) && (\"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /14/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /15/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /16/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /17/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /18/)" -->
<img src="images/button.gif" width="100" height="50" alt="Visit our live information service." border="0">
<!--#elif expr="(\"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Sunday/) && (\"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /14/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /15/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /16/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /17/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /18/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /19/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /20/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /21/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /22/)" -->
<img src="images/button.gif" width="100" height="50" alt="Visit our live information service." border="0">
<!--#elif expr="(\"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Monday/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Tuesday/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Wednesday/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /Thursday/) && (\"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /13/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /14/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /15/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /16/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /17/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /18/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /19/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /20/ ¦¦ \"$DATE_LOCAL\" = /21/)" -->
<img src="images/button.gif" width="100" height="50" alt="Visit our live information service." border="0">
<!--#else -->
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Thanks to the kind stranger who checks my work for me...
Eva the librarian
I've moved your post to this forum as I hope some of our tech savvy members will come along to give you some qualified feedback.
