Create a tim-based welcome-box

I want to create a welcome-box on the website where it displays a message. This message depends on the current time. F.e.: if someone comes to the website at 9am, then there's a message: Goodmorning. If he comes on the website in the evening, it says 'Good evening'.

I don't want to use client-based script. I know it can be done with php (of course).

Is this something that can be easily done with Modx Revo? (without writing php) Are there extra's out there in this direction?

you can build it yourself pritty easy, just make a snippet with the php code found on google

http://kuikie.com/snippet/48-22/php/date-time/php-display-morning-afternoon-or-evening-welcome-message/

Quote from: fourroses666 at Aug 29, 2014, 03:37 AM

you can build it yourself pritty easy, just make a snippet with the php code found on google

http://kuikie.com/snippet/48-22/php/date-time/php-display-morning-afternoon-or-evening-welcome-message/

Yes, this I know. But I want to use it in a more complex way where I have tv's for the messages (that the user can edit) and the opening hours. The welcome-box must be linked with this to show the correct message. I know I can create a snippet, but I was wondering if there's isn't a great extra out there that helps the job done, so I can use some properties.

Unless all your visitors are coming from the same timezone, your morning could be their evening. So you would need something like jstimezonedetect (http://cdnjs.com/libraries/jstimezonedetect) as well. I'm not aware of any extra that does this.

can't you use a MIGX - TV, where each item is a time-segment with starttime/endtime and the message.

with the getImageList - snippet, you could filter the message by the current time.

I think MIGX would be a good option.

You could also easily modify the Seasons snippet here to use time segments: http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2013/11/21/change-your-modx-wed-site-with-the-seasons/