In the last tutorial we discussed the last of the String Objects. We left off with two to go, but one of those two doesn't work in IE (and therefore is not worth mentioning; VIVE BILL GATES!) and the other is code that JavaScript creates automatically for you. So I guess what I am saying here is I am not going to discuss those. I will however discuss my good buddy, the Date Object.
JavaScript Objects: Dates - The GetDate() Method (Page 4 of 5 )
Here is a method you nerds could really use. Don't get your hopes up though; it isn't used to get you that kind of date. It is used to extract the day of the month. Here it is in some perty code:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var when = new Date()
document.write(when.getDate())
</script>
</body>
</html>
This example creates a new variable named "when." It then uses the GetDate() method to extract today's date from the variable (which we filled with data from the Date() function).
The result is:
28
The GetDay() Method
The GetDay() method allows us to see what day of the week it is, in numeric form. It is coded like this:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var when = new Date()
document.write("Today is this day of the week:")
document.write(when.getDay())
</script>
</body>
</html>
This would result in:
Today is this day of the week:
4
Note that Sunday is the 0 day of the week, so 4 would be Thursday.
Now what if we wanted to create a more helpful program that went ahead and told us the day of the week with a word, so we didn't have to use our brain? Well, we could do it this way:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var when=new Date()
var whatday=new Array(7)
whatday[0]="Sunday!"
whatday[1]="Monday!"
whatday[2]="Tuesday!"
whatday[3]="Wednesday!"
whatday[4]="Thursday!"
whatday[5]="Friday!"
whatday[6]="Saturday!"
document.write("The day of the week is... " + whatday[when.getDay()])
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