Please help me, get the day and according to the day do some action

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- Juan17o
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How could I get the day that is today from the internet with construct3, and that according to the day do some action?

What I want to do is, every Monday, to user "x", add 100 coins to value "x" in firebase

Please help me
- DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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You could create a function that used the Javascript Date object, and with that get the day of the week. It is also possible to do the calculation to extract the day from the current unix time using Construct's unixtime expression, but I think it is much easier to use the Date object.

Bellow is an example project showing a function that returns the current day of the week. Notice that the day is returned as a number between 0 and 6. So the results are like this:
- Sunday = 0
- Monday = 1
- Tuesday = 2
- Wednesday = 3
- Thrusday = 4
- Friday = 5
- Saturday = 6
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjrt07lhwnt0xob/DayOfTheWeek.c3p?dl=0

If you are interested in what else you can do with the Date object, you can check the full documentation from Mozilla here.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
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- Juan17o
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That would be great, but how will I do it in construct 2?
- AllanR
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asking in the C2 forum would have helped...

Pretty much the same as in C3, but you have to use the browser object to call the javescript.

https://www.rieperts.com/games/forum/DayOfWeek.capx

NOTE: THIS WILL ONLY work when the user runs the program. If your code says to do something on Monday, it will only happen if the user happens to run your game on a Monday.

If you want something to happen automatically, whether the user opens the game or not, then you need to store the last date they opened the game and calculate if a Monday has past, or you have to set up user accounts on a server and have code run there that keeps things up to date...
- Juan17o
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Help, AllanR

I did that but if I change the pc date, it also changes the game date, I need the date to be received only from the internet