Date nightmares (newbie fodder)

Anon

I'm trying to figure out how to assign a date to a variable, in this case $axedate, that is seven days from the current date. It will need to inserted into my database in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format.

The documentation thus far is a bit confusing. >:{

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

Thanks-- James

Anon

First things first. Write yourself an EVALFORM... that's much faster.

// Annoying date @!#$ gets worked out here.
$date = getdate();
$minutes = $date['minutes'];
$hours = $date['hours'];
$tz="CST"; / Set your time zone here /
/ init $ampm /
$ampm="AM";
if ($hours > 12) {
$hours=$hours-12;
$ampm="PM";
}

//
/ Fix minutes so that minutes 1-9 have 2 digits /
//
$day = $date[mday];
if ($day < 10) { // weekday only. someone tell me the day of money code?
$day="0$day";
}

$mon = $date[mon];
if ($mon < 10) {

$mon="0$mon";
}

$year = $date[year];
$weekday = $date[weekday];
//
/ Output: H:M AM/PM TIME ZONE /
//
echo "$date[year]-$mon-$day";

James Kass wrote:

I'm trying to figure out how to assign a date to a variable, in this case $axedate, that is seven days from the current date. It will need to inserted into my database in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format.

The documentation thus far is a bit confusing. >:{

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

Thanks-- James

Anon

Cool! Okay, that gives me the date in a format I can use. But how do i add the seven days to it?

Anon

Okay, I think I figured it out in a much shorter way...

$daze = 7;
// or how ever many days you want to add
$date = mktime (0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")+$daze,date("Y"));
$newdate = date("Y-m-d", $date);
// newdate is what will be uploaded to the database

Thanks again Michael for pointing me in the right direction. 🙂

Anon

I was about to right the above in response to Michael's extremely long example 😮)

--Joe
http://www.miester.org

Anon

$date = mktime (0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")+$daze,date("Y"));

There's a bug hiding here: there are three separate calls to
date(), resulting in three separate calls to the underlying time()
function. What's to prevent them from spanning midnight on
the last day of a month/first day of the next month? Nothing
at all, it's merely statistically unlikely. So why not prevent
it entirely by capturing the current system time with a single
call to time()?

Anon

I know this is an old thread, but maybe this will help someone down the road. Instead of dealing with mktime() and making multiple calls to date() or time(), why not simply add seven days (in seconds) to the current Unix time, and run that through date()?

//I'm lazy, make PHP figure out seven days from now
$seven_days = time() + (606024*7);

//YYYY-MM-DD
$axedate = date('Y-m-d', $seven_days);

ps - I make no guarantees. It's still early morning.