getdate() problem

klycette

I'm trying to use getdate to extract the month from a date being passed to it. In my application, I first have to add 62 days to the current date, so I'm doing that using strtotime as shown below. Then I'm trying to use getdate to extract the month, but I keep getting back December. I've tried getting back the entire date and it comes back as December 31, 1969, which I'm sure is a significant date in UNIX or something. Anyway, I don't know why this isn't working, although I expect that it's something simple. Any thoughts?


$date2 = date("F j, Y", strtotime(" + 62 day"));

$newdate = getdate($date2);
echo $newdate['month'];

planetsim

I think its the strtotime try using mktime

Weedpacket

If you're using [man]date[/man] you don't need [man]getdate[/man]. Just get the information you want from [man]date[/man] (they do pretty much the same thing; their just return their results in a different format, and [man]date[/man] is a bit more flexible.)

echo date("F", strtotime(" + 62 day"));

xmatthawkx

Hi there,

Try this:

$date2=time();
$newdate=$date2+(62360024);
echo date("F j, Y", $newdate);

klycette

I've tried using date as suggested, but now all I get back is "P". Maybe I'm not using it right.....


$date2 = date("F j, Y", strtotime(" + 62 day")); 

$newdate = date($date2); 
echo $newdate['month'];

xmatthawkx

My code should do exactly what you're looking to do. Infact, let me clean it up for you:

$newdate=time()+(62360024);
echo date("F j, Y", $newdate);

What it does, is get the unix timestamp, add 62 days to it, and formats it with date(). Pretty basic.

klycette

Thanks, but I have the date formatted already and it's successfully adding 62 days to it. The problem that I'm having is that I want to extract the month from the resulting array. My goal is the end is to set a drop-down list to the value of the month and I think I have that covered, but I haven't been able to isolate the month value...the 62 days is being added correctly. Thanks though

Weedpacket

Originally posted by klycette
Thanks, but I have the date formatted already and it's successfully adding 62 days to it. The problem that I'm having is that I want to extract the month from the resulting array. My goal is the end is to set a drop-down list to the value of the month and I think I have that covered, but I haven't been able to isolate the month value...the 62 days is being added correctly. Thanks though

Have a look at my post.

klycette

Thanks, weedpacket...I'm more than a little embarrassed. I saw what you posted, but I wasn't very familiar with date so I didn't realize until now that you gave me the actual answer.😃

As a bonus, I figured out what my problem with getdate was...it was the formatting. It works fine when I take out the formatting and let it just be the timestamp.

Anyway, your way is much shorter, so I'll be using that. Thanks for the reminder to look at your post.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by klycette
Thanks, weedpacket...I'm more than a little embarrassed. I saw what you posted, but I wasn't very familiar with date so I didn't realize until now that you gave me the actual answer.😃

What I find myself doing when I'm busy is I just look at the first and last post, and assume that the last poster had read the earlier posts. I figured you may have done that!