I am looking to build or if possible, simply use someone else's work.. but here's my project. I run an organization that has Wednesday meetings on odd months and Saturday meetings on even months. Is there a simple widget or set of code I could employ that would automatically change depending on the month? For example, this calendar or scrolling marquee or static image saying "Meeting this XXXXX at 9" would update depending on the actual date? So come the 1st of October, the item (image, calendar, widget) flips and displays "Meeting this Saturday at 10am" and November 1st is switches to "Meeting this Wednesday at 4pm"?

I'm trying to automate the update so people can be instantly informed which day the meeting is each month without me having to remember to update it, or without having to go into a Google calendar widget and map out all the meeting dates and whatnot.

 

thanks!

how is your current site made? Wordpress? something else? 

Pretty much plain HTML, CSS with some JavaScript intertwined. It's very basic. I had a Google calendar thumbnail added to it, but we generally dont have enough events to merit using a calendar like that, our main activities would be the monthly meetings. I manually add notifications for special events so that's not a biggie. I update through Cpanels html Editor.

Edit: it could even be as simple as a script that calls on an image to be displayed. I could fix the image to a certain location and then the script could check the month, and call on the correct image. Open to suggestions.

Edited September 15, 20214 yr by Mikeshonda750f

i'm not a dev but had a similar thing for a menu for a care home that changed weekly and rotated on an 8 week basics. our dev made an an array and matched the week number/date and used php to echo today's date, traverse the array and find and display matching entries. Someone (not me ) could do the same in js. no doubt someone here can advise you

A simple thing to do in php. As @davep suggests, you just need to get today’s date and display the appropriate image caption for the next meeting.

You could use JS but it’s a bit more fiddly.

A developer could do this in a couple of hours.