Script to redirect based on date or time or day of the week

Recently made a mistake by accepting a project before the initial milestone was deposited. Though I completed the project, the client did not pay, instead commented SCAM and deleted the project. So I am posting this over here hoping that the beggar will pick from here. Or this will be of use to some one.

This is not much of a magic or php expertise. The configuration area requires a default configuration with the tag ( index ) ‘0’ and then on the indexes have some meanings. A four digit will be treated as time. Eg ‘1200’ will take as 12 noon and any time after that unless another time is configured. But if you put ‘1170’ that will also be taken as 12 noon and continue. If put ‘Tuesday’ any day that falls on Tuesday will use that configuration. Again a blank configuration means not to show anything.
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Setting session timestamp limited to script scope in PHP

Lets start with analyzing a use case. Well at Saturn we required to run a cron
job which was written in php, with a lot of use for date functions, every day
starting Jan 1 2001 to Dec 31 2012. I did not dig much into override_function
to change the behavior of the date function, instead a small class was written
to handle the ticks, but the loop was run using a history table in mysql.

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MsSQL Export to CSV

In the near past I got frustrated searching for a tool to export from MsSQL express to proper CSV. As always the frustration lead me to google, and found the post on stackoverflow and to digital point forums and a lot of other places. All these had some or the other issues with us. One being the MsSQL not hosted on our servers and we dont have access to the GUI tools, the second is that I am a bit towards the fag end when Microsoft Technologies are in the anvil. Finally there was no other way and what I did was to migrate our PHP MySQL wrapper to support MsSQL.

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