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PHP - Using if statement to Display a Greeting

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Introduction
Here's a simple example that demonstrates the if, elseif, and else statements, as well as the ? (ternary) operator.

Demo
<?php

$hour = date( "G" );

$year = date( "Y" );

if ( $hour >= 5 && $hour < 12 ) {

echo "Good morning!";
} elseif ( $hour >= 12 && $hour < 18 ) {
echo "Good afternoon!";
} elseif ( $hour >= 18 && $hour < 22 ) {
echo "Good evening!";
} else {/*from www . j a v a2s . c om*/
echo "Good night!";
}

$leapYear = false;

if ( ( ( $year % 4 == 0 ) && ( $year % 100 != 0 ) ) || ( $year % 400 == 0 ) )

$leapYear = true;

echo "$year is" . ( $leapYear ? "" : " not" ) . " a leap year?";

?>

Result

The script sets two variables: $hour, holding the current hour of the day.

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$year holds the current year.

It uses PHP's date() function to get these two values: passing the string "G" to date() returns the hour in 24-hour clock
format, and passing "Y" returns the year.
Next, the script uses an if...elseif...else construct to display an appropriate greeting.

If the current hour is between 5 and 12 the script displays "Good morning!";

if it's between 12 and 18 it displays "Good afternoon!" and so on.

Finally, the script works out if the current year is a leap year.

It creates a new $leapYear variable, set to false by default, then sets $leapYear to true if the current year is divisible by
4 but not by 100, or if it's divisible by 400.

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