[Resolved] Date Question

[Cynthia_Blue]

I have a couple of form fields... one is a From date, one is a To date (for searches). I have the To date defaulting to todays date. To get the From date to default to 10 days prior to today, would this work correctly?

$date = date ("Y-m-d"); 
list ($year, $month, $day) = split ("-", $date);
$todayfrom =  date ("m/d/Y", mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day-10,$year));

Since it's the system date I cannot change the date to verify. 🙂
Thanks.

Edit: forgot some of the code. 😉

[Pig]

store your dates as a unix timestamp, not in any sort of yyyy-mm-dd forat, if you can help it.

Check out strtotime. It will do all of that for you.

[ahundiak]

$day - 10 won't work the way you want. mktime won't know what to do with negative numbers.

$time = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year);
$time = $time - (60602410); / Subtract 10 days worth of seconds */

And feed it into date for formating.

[Cynthia_Blue]

Excellent thanks. 🙂