PHP script triggered each morning by a cron job, and a small jQuery function that loads today's hours in remotely-hosted systems
The PHP file outputs formatted HTML suitable for inclusion into any GVSU Library website. All you need to do is include the HTML in the div with the .library-hours class in the header. A sample JavaScript/jQuery file using the .load() method is also included.
This relies heavily on Kyle Felker's Hours API for the GVSU Libraries. But the API requires a server call for each location, and since this will be on every web page on all of our tools, I wanted to cut things down to a single server call for the hours each time the page loads. So the PHP script runs each morning at 2:15am and generates a new PHP file, which contains a PHP header allowing cross-domain requests, and the HTML for the header hours. You can grab the hours in any way you want, but since all of our external sites use jQuery, I am using the extremely simple .load() method.
The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.