Display content based on date with PHP

Question

I\'m putting together a contest site built on Wordpress. Legally, the contest has to start at midnight. To avoid being up at midnight to set up the content, i\'d like to bui

Answer 1

// setup the start date (in a nice legible form) using any
// of the formats found on the following page:
// http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php
$contestStart = "February 1, 2012"; 

// check if current time is before the specified date
if (time() < strftime($contestStart)){
  // Display splash screen
}

// date has already passed
else {
  // Display page
}