Traffic light in C wiringPi

Question

I am working on a project for my C programming class and need to use wiringPi on my raspberryPi. I need to create a traffic light (like a real one- red to green to yellow to red, etc.) and a pedestrian signal that turns on a white light and turns off the other colors when the button is pushed. This program is in c language and created on putty for raspberryPi.
I have the idea that:
While red is HIGH, yellow, green, and white are LOW.
While green is HIGH, yellow, red, and white are LOW.
While yellow is HIGH, red, green, and white are LOW.
If button is pushed, white is HIGH and red, yellow, green are LOW.
The order must go: red, green, yellow, red, green, yellow, red... Until the button is pushed and the white light turns on.
Once the white light turns off, the traffic light (red, green, yellow...) continues as usual.

This is my code so far:

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wiringPi.h>

int main(void)
{
    // RED is pinMode 1 (18)
    // YELLOW is pinMode 4 (23)
    // GREEN is pinMode 5 (24)
    // WHITE is pinMode 6 (25)
    // SWITCH is pineMode 0 (17)

    wiringPiSetup ();
    pinMode (1, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (4, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (5, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (6, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (0, INPUT);

    for (;;) {
        if (digitalRead(6) == LOW && digitalRead(0) == LOW) {
            digitalWrite (1, LOW);
            digitalWrite (4, LOW);
            digitalWrite (5, LOW);
            digitalWrite (6, HIGH);
            delay (2000);
        }
        if (digitalRead(0) == LOW) {
            digitalWrite (1, HIGH);
            delay (1000);
            digitalWrite (4, HIGH);
            delay (1000);
            digitalWrite (5, HIGH);
            delay (1000);
            digitalWrite (6, LOW);
            delay (1000);
        }

    }
    return 0;
}

No error message appears when I compile it (gcc -Wall -o student student.c -lwiringPi) (my project is named student.c) however it doesn't turn anything on and the button doesn't work either.
I have my breadboard set up right now correctly (confirmed with the professor.)
What is the problem with my code?

Answer 1

The problem that you are having is that your code never does anything if the button is pushed. The current code you have provided has the first if statement turn the white led on and all other LEDs on when the button is not pressed and the second if statement if the code you have provided will turn on all the LEDs in one second intervals and the white led off while the button is not pressed. The code below should work for you as it will loop through red,green,yellow then when the button is pressed it should make the white and red LEDs turn on for 5 seconds. We use a clock because sleep is a blocking function that will prevent the button press from being detected. I'm a little rusty with my c so please copy paste any compiler errors you get and ill try and debug.

//#include <iostream>
//#include <cstdio>
//#include <ctime>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
//#include <unistd.h>
#include <wiringPi.h>

time_t startTime;
void resetTime(void){
    time(&startTime);
}
int main(void)
{
    // RED LED is pinMode 1 (18)
    // YELLOW LED is pinMode 4 (23)
    // GREEN LED is pinMode 5 (24)
    // WHITE LED is pinMode 6 (25)
    // SWITCH is pinMode 0 (17)
    resetTime();
    wiringPiSetup ();
    pinMode (1, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (4, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (5, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (6, OUTPUT);
    pinMode (0, INPUT);

    for (;;) {
        if(digitalRead(0)==LOW){
            //turn on  RED
            digitalWrite (1, HIGH);
            //turn on WHITE
            digitalWrite (6, HIGH);
            //turn off YELLOW
            digitalWrite (4, LOW);
            // turn off GREEN
            digitalWrite (5, LOW);
            // delay then turn white light off
            delay (5000);
            resetTime();
            // I USE SLEEP HERE BUT DELAY MAY ALSO WORK
            //sleep(5);
        }else{
            time_t currentTime=time(NULL);
            //set all LEDS to low
            digitalWrite (1, LOW);
            digitalWrite (4, LOW);
            digitalWrite (5, LOW);
            digitalWrite (6, LOW);
            int timePastInSec=difftime(currentTime, startTime);
            if(timePastInSec<=5){
                // if less than or equal to 5 seconds have passed turn on red
                digitalWrite (1, HIGH);
            }else if(timePastInSec<=10){
                //if less than or equal to 10 seconds have passed but more than 5 turn RED led off and turn GREEN on
                digitalWrite (1, LOW);
                digitalWrite (5, HIGH);
            }else if(timePastInSec<=12){
                //if more than 10 seconds have passed and less than or equal to 12 have passed turn off the green light and turn yellow on.
                digitalWrite (5, LOW);
                digitalWrite(4, HIGH);
            }else{
                //if over 12 seconds have passed reset the timer and restart the light sequence
                resetTime();
            }
        }
    }
    return 0;
}