How secure is this plugin

Hi @coyotech,

The end_day_time shortcode parameter is the only required one. The value contained in this attribute (and start_day_time as well) is parsed by the PHP strtotime() function. It doesn’t “activate” PHP in the content, so is pretty secure as far as I know.

You can read through the code to see what specifically happens, but basically it compares the end day / time with the start day / time, and if it’s inside that timeframe it will show the content included inside the shortcode.

The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if now is not supplied.

I believe tt won’t currently work to show content on multiple days in a single shortcode, but I think you could probably use the shortcode 3 times in your post to accomplish what you’re asking. Something like:

[display_during start_day_time="Mon 12:01 am" end_day_time="Mon 11:59 pm" message=""]YOUR_CONTENT_TO_DISPLAY_ON_MONDAY[/display_during][display_during start_day_time="Wed 12:01 am" end_day_time="Wed 11:59 pm" message=""]YOUR_CONTENT_TO_DISPLAY_ON_WEDNESDAY[/display_during][display_during start_day_time="Fri 12:01 am" end_day_time="Fri 11:59 pm" message=""]YOUR_CONTENT_TO_DISPLAY_ON_FRIDAY[/display_during]

You’d have to experiment with it to see about using it to show content during a set time period only. If it doesn’t work when you try just putting time in, you could extend the example above to specify each day of the week.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Gabriel Serafini.