[Resolved] multiple listbox ?

filn

hey all, you guys are so much help!

so far this is what ive got:

$timestamp = strtotime("february 30, 2004"); 
$h = date('F d, Y', strtotime("$days days", $timestamp)); // $days is a number from a form

echo $h; //  month day, year

i want to replace the "february 30, 2004" with the date selected from a series of list box ($theday[], $themonth[] and $theyear[]), how do i get the users selection into the [] of the var? (does that make sence?)

TheDefender

No.

Do you want to take february and get it into an array?

$themonth[] = "february";

or do you want to take february and assign it as the index?

$themonth['february'] = whatever...

Your question definitely needs clarifying.Also, you mention [] and variables in the same sentence, but [] with a variable name is in reference to an array.

filn

sorry, i confussed myself as well 🙂

what i have is a html listbox with the months, a listbox with the days and a listbox with years.

from what ive figured out, php will read these as $themonth[x]
(name=themonth) where "x" is the option that was selected. (correct?)

now, my question is sence i have 3 listboxes, how do i get the results of those listboxes (the month, day and year) into a format that can be used by the script ive already come up with to add a number to that date to get a new date?

TheDefender

Well, with what you are doing, it's actually...

$POST['themonth'] = x (where x is the option selected. Note, you want to use $GET instead of $_POST if you are using the get method.

On your action page, you'd do something like this (assuming you are passing a numeric month value which is recommended):

$date = strtotime($_POST['theyear']."-".$_POST['themonth']."-".$_POST['theday']);
$newdate = $date + (86400 * n); // where n is the number of days to add.
$newdateformatted = date("F d, Y", newdate);
echo $newdateformatted;

If you want to subtract dates instead, the math is basically the same, but you subtract instead... Also, note, this will only work with dates later than January 1, 1970 since it uses the strtotime function. Let me know if any of this doesn't make sense, doesn't work, or you need more guidance.

filn

thank you!

but...

when i run the script, no matter what date i put into the listboxes it always returns december 31, 1969.

i changed the "n" to $days (the days input from the form) and it still is the same, 12-31-69.

filn

alright i got it! based on what you did above i came up with this and it seems to work:

$m = "$_POST[themonth]";
$d = "$_POST[theday]";
$y = "$_POST[theyear]";

$timestamp = strtotime("$m $d, $y"); 
$h = date('F d, Y', strtotime("$days days", $timestamp));

TheDefender

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