I'm working on hotel type booking script where prices will vary
depending on the season. prices are updated every year so i need to take
a user inputed date and determine which season the date falls under.
i figured i can convert all dates into a timestamp and then run a series
conditional statements to see which returns true.
something like this:
// date ranges
$dates[1]['start'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '01', '04', date('Y'));
$dates[1]['end'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '04', '14', date('Y'));
$dates[2]['start'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '04', '15', date('Y'));
$dates[2]['end'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '08', '18', date('Y'));
$dates[3]['start'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '08', '19', date('Y'));
$dates[3]['end'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '12', '23', date('Y'));
$dates[4]['start'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '12', '14', date('Y'));
$dates[4]['end'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, '01', '03', date('Y') + 1);
// tstamp is user inputed date
if($tstamp >= $dates[1]['start'] && $tstamp <= $dates[1]['end']){
return 1;
}
if($tstamp >= $dates[2]['start'] && $tstamp <= $dates[2]['end']){
return 2;
}
if($tstamp >= $dates[3]['start'] && $tstamp <= $dates[3]['end']){
return 3;
}
if($tstamp >= $dates[4]['start'] && $tstamp <= $dates[4]['end']){
return 4;
}
now, not sure why this isn't working...but it's not returning true for
any of these.
also i'm realizing i need to account for people who decide to book a
date a year ahead, in which case this approach will break since all
timestamp date ranges (except for $date[4]['end']) are set to the
current year.
any suggestions on how i should approach this problem?
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