Future dates

[dloeppky]

Hi all,

I have a date variable in the format yyyy-m-d. How do I go about finding dates in the future using this variable... 1 week from this date, 2 weeks, 1 month, etc, etc. I am using PHP v4+.

Cheers,
David

[LordShryku]

You'll do your math in the mktime() function....

$date = "2003-12-15";
$month = date("m", strtotime($date));
$year = date("Y", strtotime($date));
$day = date("d", strtotime($date));
$future = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0, $month+1, $day, $year));
echo $future;

[jubripley]

You could try something like this

$date = "2003-09-23";

list ($y,$m,$d) = split ("-",$date);

// 1 week into the future
$future_timestamp = mktime (0,0,0,$m,$d + 7,$y);

$future_date = date('Y-m-d', $future_timestamp);

$future_date is now 1 week ahead of $date.

[LordShryku]

Yep....you just can't change your date format with that method...