Body Class with filter

[Ian]

This is probably beyond your normal support perimeters but I am hoping someone can help me out here. I want to add the “Season” to my body class for some CSS tweaking of my site.

I can successfully add the date to my body class.

Here is the working code:

add_filter( 'body_class', 'my_class_names' );
function my_class_names( $classes ) {
	// add 'class-name' to the $classes array
	$classes[] = date('M');
	// return the $classes array
	return $classes;
}

What I want to add is the season. I have found the following code but have been unable to put the whole thing together.

Not working code:

function getSeasonCssClass() {
  $month = date('n'); // current month number without leading 0
  $season = array(
    1 => 'winter',
    2 => 'winter',
    3 => 'winter',
    4 => 'spring',
    5 => 'spring',
    6 => 'spring',
    7 => 'summer',
    8 => 'summer',
    9 => 'summer',
    10 => 'autumn',
    11 => 'autumn',
    12 => 'autumn',
  );
  return $season[$month];
}

Would appreciate any help, thanks!

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Try this one instead.

add_filter( 'body_class', 'getSeasonCssClass' );

function getSeasonCssClass() {
  $month = date('n'); // current month number without leading 0
  $season = array(
    1 => 'winter',
    2 => 'winter',
    3 => 'winter',
    4 => 'spring',
    5 => 'spring',
    6 => 'spring',
    7 => 'summer',
    8 => 'summer',
    9 => 'summer',
    10 => 'autumn',
    11 => 'autumn',
    12 => 'autumn',
  );
  $classes = $season[$month];
  return $classes;
}

Hope it helps.

-Rui

[Ian]

Throwing a couple of errors:

Warning: array_unique() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /home/isterne/public_html/sandboxes/sandbox25/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 721

Warning: join() [function.join]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/isterne/public_html/sandboxes/sandbox25/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 516
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-Ian

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Replace this line
function getSeasonCssClass() {

by this one
function getSeasonCssClass($classes) {

I’m afraid I can’t keep support if it doesn’t work.

-Rui

[Ian]

Rui,

Thanks for the help, still not working, I will keep trying to figure this one out.

By the way I am using a great plugin Code Snippets for managing snippets that I would highly recommend to any of your users.

Thanks again!

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Thanks for the info.
Just one thing the problem can be in the php of the existing function. try to return a fixed value just to see if it works.

instead return $classes; place return "testing";

To check if the value of the month is right use var_dump($month);

Good luck

-Rui

[Ian]

Rui,

Just for your info got this working not exactly elegant but works!

add_filter('body_class','browser_body_class');

function browser_body_class($classes = '') {
	$month = date('n');

	if($month == 1) $classes[] = 'winter';
	elseif($month == 2) $classes[] = 'winter';
	elseif($month == 3) $classes[] = 'winter';
	elseif($month == 4) $classes[] = 'spring';
	elseif($month == 5) $classes[] = 'spring';
	elseif($month == 6) $classes[] = 'spring';
	elseif($month == 7) $classes[] = 'summer';
	elseif($month == 8) $classes[] = 'summer';
	elseif($month == 9) $classes[] = 'summer';
	elseif($month == 10) $classes[] = 'autumn';
	elseif($month == 11) $classes[] = 'autumn';
	elseif($month == 11) $classes[] = 'autumn';

	return $classes;
}

-Ian

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Great. glad it’s sorted. Some problem reaching the array in the first alternative.
-Rui