Need JavaScript help

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-10 09:36am

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

dayName = new Array ("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
monName = new Array ("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December")

now = new Date

// -->
</script>
</head>

<body>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

document.write(dayName[now.getDay()] + ", " + monName[now.getMonth()] + " " + now.getDate() + ".")

// -->
</script>

</body>
</html>

Okay, basic code for a current date. Is there ANY WAY to set this so it advances to TOMORROW'S date instead of TODAY'S?

~ver

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 09:42am

Try this:

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 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

dayName = new Array ("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
monName = new Array ("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December")

now = new Date
tom = now.getDate()+1

// -->
</script>
</head>

<body>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

document.write(dayName[now.getDay()+1] + ", " + monName[now.getMonth()] + " " + tom + ".")

// -->
</script>

</body>
</html>

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-10 09:47am

Thanks.

~ver

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 09:49am

verilon wrote:Thanks.

Sure. You might need to hack it a bit more to advance the month on 28, 29, 30 or 31.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-10 09:51am

Dalton wrote:
verilon wrote:Thanks.
Sure. You might need to hack it a bit more to advance the month on 28, 29, 30 or 31.

Ok.. since I'm pretty much JS-illiterate for the most part, how might I go about doing this? (My little book here doesn't explain that much into current dates.)

~ver

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 09:56am

Well, it's pretty much a bit of mix and match. If you, say, take the raw array value from the script for the month and filter that through a new array consisting of a list of end dates, you can take THAT result and make an if-then statement like

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if (now.getDate == EndDatevariable) then month == now.getMonth()+1

Of course, there's a lot more hacking to do if you want to make it leap-year friendly...but that's a pain in the ass.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-10 10:03am

Dalton wrote:Well, it's pretty much a bit of mix and match. If you, say, take the raw array value from the script for the month and filter that through a new array consisting of a list of end dates, you can take THAT result and make an if-then statement like
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if (now.getDate == EndDatevariable) then month == now.getMonth()+1
Of course, there's a lot more hacking to do if you want to make it leap-year friendly...but that's a pain in the ass.

-blinks- Huh? Note: I FAILED my Java class at uni because I didn't understand arrays..

~ver

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 10:11am

verilon wrote:-blinks- Huh? Note: I FAILED my Java class at uni because I didn't understand arrays..

Alright...let me do some quick hacking. Back in a flash.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 10:49am

Gonna require a lot of special commands just to make sure you don't get an "undefined" error...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 10:57am

See what this does for you.

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 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

dayName = new Array ("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
monName = new Array ("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
endDate = new Array ("31","28","31","30","31","30","31","31","30","31","30","31");

now = new Date();
tod = now.getDate();
tom = now.getDate()+1;
tom2 = dayName[now.getDay()+1];
mon = monName[now.getMonth()];
mon2 = monName[now.getMonth()+1];
mon3 = monName[now.getMonth()-11];
endDateNow = endDate[now.getMonth()];

if (now.getYear()%4 == 0 && now.getMonth()==1) {endDateNow=29};
if (now.getDate() == endDateNow) {mon=mon2};
if (now.getDate()+1 > endDateNow) {tom=tom-endDateNow};
if (now.getMonth() == 11 && now.getDate()+1 > endDateNow) {mon=mon3};
if (now.getDay()+1 > 6) {tom2 = dayName[now.getDay()-6]};

// -->
</script>
</head>

<body>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

document.write(tom2 + ", " + mon + " " + tom + ".")

// -->
</script>

</body>
</html>

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-10 11:27am

Seems to work fine. MANY thanks!

Seems today will be a good day yet..

~ver

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-10 11:31am

verilon wrote:Seems to work fine. MANY thanks!

Seems today will be a good day yet..

Glad I could help! Let me know if it chokes on any particular date.