UDT that outputs the current season

At our community website I made a header with a changing photo of our village and the surrounding area. I made four folders with photos, one for each season. With a User Defined Tag I read the date and determine what season it is and set it in a Smarty string. With that I change the output of the photo gallery path.
In the CMSMS forum we discussed a similar UDT, I improved the code and will show it to you here.

How to use

Create a new UDT with the name "season" and the content:

season

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

$limits = array (
'/12/21'=>'winter',
'/09/21'=>'autumn',
'/06/21'=>'summer',
'/03/21'=>'spring',
'/01/01'=>'winter');

foreach ( $limits as $key => $value ) {
$limit = date('Y') . $key;
if ( time() >= strtotime($limit) ) return $value;
}

You can use this UDT in your page or template like:

{Gallery dir="header-photos/{season}" action='showrandom' number='1' template='header'}

Working example

Code:

<p>The current season is: <b>{season}</b></p>

Output:

The current season is: winter

Working example

Community website Zeijen.nu

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UDT that outputs the current season

Article optimized for CMSMS 2.x

  Author: Rolf
  Last tested in: CMSMS 2.2.19
  Last updated: 10-06-2019
  Comments: 0
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