date question

uwajes

I'm trying to display upcoming events for a week at a time. I haven't had much luck with finding a script to do that. However, I found the script below which displays upcoming events that are saved as text files. The only problem with this is that it displays all future events which could be a lengthy list.

My question is how can I modify it to perhaps just display the next 14 days or 7 days? Is that even possible?

<?php 
$date = date("Ymd"); 

$handle=opendir('events'); 
while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) { 

if ($file >= $date) { 
   include("events/$file"); 
} 
} 
closedir($handle); 
?>

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twilson

If you had access to a database this would be MUCH easier.

Try this:

 <?php  

$Today = date("Ymd");
$EndDay = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+7,date("Y")));

$handle=opendir('events');  

while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) {  

if (($file >= $Today) && ($file <= $EndDay)) {  
   include("events/$file");  
}  
}  

closedir($handle);  

?>

Should work. Let me know if there's an issue.

mktime() is a killer function when used with date(). Brush up in the manual: http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Look at Example 3.

Peace,
Tom 🙂

uwajes

This looks like it's working so far. Thanks for the help!