If $date within the next week...

sroughley

Hey all.

Need some help with dates. I need to know if a given date, in dd/mm/yyyy format, falls within the next seven days. I.e. IF $date is within the next week THEN do something....

How would I acheive this? I don't even know where to begin.

Regards.

Steve.

nilesh

--some intro--

time : Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

mktime : Get UNIX timestamp for a date

NOW convert your dd/mm/yyyy to unixtimestamp

timevalue1 = int mktime ( [int hour [, int minute [, int second [, int month [, int day [, int year [, int is_dst]]]]]]])

then add 7 days worth of seconds =
60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x 24 (hrs) x 7 (days)
=604800 seconds.

create another timevalue2 with this seconds added to current date and compare.

another method
$OneWeekFromNow = date ("d-M-y", mktime(0,0,0, date("m"), date("d")+7, date("Y")));

your mileage will vary.
check both the methods.

matt_4013

Hi Steve. nilesh has the basics of it down, but I figured I'd go into a little bit more detail for you. Don't know if you need it, but a lot of people do 😉

First thing you'll need to do is create a timestamp from your date. To do this, you can use either mktime or strtotime. mktime is probably faster (no guarantees) so I'd suggest using that. You'll need to split up your date, to use it in the mktime function. Use explode for this. So this is how we go about it:

$aDate = explode("/", $date);
$sTimestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $aDate[1], $aDate[0], $aDate[2]);

This gives you a timestamp for your date. Now, you need todays timestamp, and you need another variable which contains the timestamp a week from now. Use the time function for this.

$sDateToday = time();
$sDateWeek = $sDateToday + 604800;

Then just use these variables as conditions in your if statement:

$aDate = explode("/", $date);
$sTimestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $aDate[1], $aDate[0], $aDate[2]);

$sDateToday = time();
$sDateWeek = $sDateToday + 604800;

if($sTimestamp >= $sDateToday && $sTimeStamp <= $sDateWeek) {

// if it's in the week, do this stuff
} else {

// otherwise do something else
}