What's the date going to be in a week's time?

KITTfan2K

I want to find out from my PHP what the date (formatted in the MySQL date format of 00-00-0000) will be in 7 days' time.

I thought of using this code, but I wan't sure that it would have the desired effect:

$Date = date ("d-m-Y") + 7;

Then I thought of using the following code:

$Date = date ("d") + 7;
$Date .= date ("-m-Y");

Then I realised that I was going to finish this month with the 38th January 2004, not 07th February 2004.

Is my first code best, or would PHP rather kill itself than do it that way?

P.S. Is there anywhere I can get a tutorial on dealing with files? I need to know how to change what is sent down the pipe depending on file type, and how to move a file that I've uploaded to another folder (directory or whatever) on the server.

bubblenut

01-20-2004 :p
Only joking, use the mktime() function to get the current timestamp then add 6060247 (secondsminuteshoursdays) to the value.

<?php
echo date("d-m-Y",mktime()+(60*60*24*7));
?>

Not sure if you really deserved that though, as it does almost give you the exact anwser on the date page.
HTH

weekender

//get the timestamp for 1 week from now
$date = strtotime("+1 week");
//convert this to required format
$formatteddate = date("d-m-Y", $date);
echo $formatteddate; //echoes 20-01-2004

hope that helps

adam

KITTfan2K

Originally posted by bubblenut
01-20-2004 :p
Only joking, use the mktime() function to get the current timestamp then add 6060247 (secondsminuteshoursdays) to the value.
<?php
echo date("d-m-Y",mktime()+(60*60*24*7));
?>
Not sure if you really deserved that though, as it does almost give you the exact anwser on the date page.
HTH [/B]

I did read the date page, but I must have skipped right over that part. (I will admit that I sometimes find the users' comments slightly more informative than some of the information on the rest of the page.)

Thanks, though. I really should have read the whole page.

Code I actually decided to use, after looking at mktime:

$Date = date ("d-m-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("d") + 7, date ("m"), date ("Y")));

KITTfan2K