[Resolved] Adding to dates !!!

Rodders

My brain has gone numb, and I cannot find my way through the PHP manual to get the relevant information.

I have a date (YYYY-MM-DD) and I'd like to add 1 week to it. Can anyone point me towards the name of the PHP function that can do this ?

Maybe it isn't possible, in which case I'll use MySQL.

Thanks

Rich

Rodders

Couldn't see the wood for the trees !

 // Next Week's date
 $nw_date = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")+7, date("Y")));

LordShryku

There's also [man]strtotime[/man], which is sometimes easier.

date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+7 days"));
date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 week"));

Rodders

Is there any way to supply a date as a variable/argument to these functions ?

LordShryku

Sure, say you calculate 2 weeks from now, and you want to add a year. This is where you'll see the benefit of strtotime over mktime. With mktime, you'll have to split up your date.

/* get two weeks from now */
$date = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0, date("m"), date("d")+14, date("Y")));

/* now add the year */
// strtotime
$new = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date." +1 year"));

//mktime
$split = explode("-", $date);
$new = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0, $split[1], $split[2], $split[0]+1));

Both produce 2005-07-05, but strtotime eliminates the need to split the date up beforehand.

Rodders

Thanks, that is some very pretty code you have there !

Meltdown

Thanks a lot for the code LordShryku, just what I need right now.