PHP - If () Condition

Question

I need to check if the day today is Saturday or Sunday. And i am trying to use simple if function for that but I don't know why it doesn't seem to work.

<?php
 $tdate = date("D");
 echo "Today is $tdate - ";
 if ($tdate != "Sat" || $tdate != "Sun") {
   echo "Weekday";
 }
 else {
  echo "Weekend: $tdate";
 }
?>

And the output I am getting is as follows:

Today is Sat - Weekday

What is exactly wrong with the if function?

See this answer for a much simpler idea: stackoverflow.com/a/4802362/362536 — Brad
– Brad, Commented Mar 3, 2012 at 5:12

Richard J. Ross III · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-03 05:13:51Z

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You are performing a OR, which checks if one or the other statements are true. This means that while $tdate != "Sat" is false, $tdate != "Sun" is true. If you simply change your OR (||) to an AND (&&), your code will work fine.

answered Mar 3, 2012 at 5:13

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Saad Bashir Over a year ago

I am a little confused. For an if statement with AND shouldn't both conditions be true? if ($tdate != "Sat" && $tdate != "Sun") {} < means its not Sat & not Sunday right? And if ($tdate != "Sat" || $tdate != "Sun") { } < means if it is not Saturday, check the second condition and if it is not Sunday then run the what is in the brackets. But if it is Saturday, then skip this if function. I am a bit confused here. Reply to this query should help me clear this confusion. Thanks!

Richard J. Ross III Over a year ago

Basically, you are checking in this snippet if the day is NOT a weekend. To check if it IS a weekend, you would use == with ||, instead of != with &&

dejjub-AIS Over a year ago

if it still confuses you, better draw a truth table and check how it behaves

xdazz · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-03 05:11:18Z

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if ($tdate != "Sat" && $tdate != "Sun") {

answered Mar 3, 2012 at 5:11

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Richard J. Ross III Over a year ago

You don't explain the problem, you just show the solution. IMO, a bad answer, so I downvoted.

xdazz Over a year ago

@RichardJ.RossIII This isn't necessary to explain, just a miss for op perhaps.

dejjub-AIS · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-03 08:20:27Z

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Its a logical error you need to fix

What you are saying is

If "today is NOT Saturday" OR "today is NOT Sunday", then its a Weekday

So yields TRUE because, one of the two conditions has satisfied (when the day is either Saturday or Sunday) and it goes into the true block and prints as weekday

The fix can be in two ways, 1st what xdazz gave OR the one below

<?php
 $tdate = date("D");
 echo "Today is $tdate - ";
 if (!($tdate == "Sat" || $tdate == "Sun")) {
   echo "Weekday";
 }
 else {
  echo "Weekend: $tdate";
 }
?>

edited Mar 3, 2012 at 8:20

answered Mar 3, 2012 at 5:27

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Hassan Khodadadeh · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-03 05:13:04Z

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 if ($tdate != "Sat" || $tdate != "Sun")

when it's Sat, So it's not Sun and condition of if is true.use && instead.

answered Mar 3, 2012 at 5:13

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