Adding Dates

[aznvc1]

Can someone please help me, I have a date variable

date = "17-APR-01";

I want to add 6 months to it. So the result would be "17-OCT-01". I have to keep the date in this format.

I have tried messing around with all the date functions. The examples I have found all seem to refer only to adding to the current date. Can someone please help me, I have looked all over the web and haven't been able to find any examples that I could use.

[Anon]

Here. Some wise man gave this to me a long time ago.. and now I pass it on to you.

	$timestamp =  time();
	$date_time_array =  getdate($timestamp);
	$hours =  $date_time_array["hours"];
	$minutes =  $date_time_array["minutes"];
	$seconds =  $date_time_array["seconds"];
	$month =  $date_time_array["mon"];
	$day =  $date_time_array["mday"];
   	$year =  $date_time_array["year"];

	// use mktime to recreate the unix timestamp

	$timestamp =  mktime($hours, $minutes,$seconds ,$month, $day,$year);

You would find your date by saying that you want to add 6 months to mktime and get a result.

would look somehting like this.

	$timestamp =  time();
	$date_time_array =  getdate($timestamp);
	$hours =  $date_time_array["hours"];
	$minutes =  $date_time_array["minutes"];
	$seconds =  $date_time_array["seconds"];
	$month =  $date_time_array["mon"];
	$day =  $date_time_array["mday"];
   	$year =  $date_time_array["year"];

	// use mktime to recreate the unix timestamp

	$timestamp =  mktime($hours, $minutes,$seconds ,$month + 6, $day,$year);