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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: "weekly" javascript?
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super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> writes:

> One of the features on my site is putting up the No. 1 single and LP a 
> certain amount of years ago (currently alternating between 40 or 45 
> years ago every week, as the years progress it will eventually be 
> 45/50). I do this according to what week of the year it is currently, 
> and have been doing this manually every week for a long time.
>
> I was just wondering if there's a good JS I could use for this, say put 
> all 52 weekly items in a separate file and then have the appropriate 
> item come up according to what week it is?
>
> I have a "birthday" JS on the same page that's worked pretty well for me 
> over the years, I just have to change it each month....
>
> <script language="JavaScript">
<snip>

This group tends to discuss client-side scripting (as in your example)
but both the "historic single" and "birthday" examples are classic cases
that are usually best handled by server-side code.  (Obviously
JavaScript can be used server side (see node.js) but that's not really
the point.)

You should consider doing some or all of this server-side.

-- 
Ben.