[Resolved] using date() to insert expiry

[ldtiw]

Hello,

Im in the process of seting up a classified listing section. Im using 2co for the payment gateway and so far everything is working.

When payment is taken they are redirected to a page i specify which uses information from the transaction to update the users listing info.

So when payment is taken the active field gets changed to Y and the length gets changed to how ever long they would like the listing on the site for.

what i need to do is, depending on how long they chose for the listing to appear on the site, add an expire_date.

the passback is done for how many months they would like. so if they chose to have the listing on there for 2 months the listing would be: date_added= 10/12/2004 and the expire_date =10/02/2005.

for the date_added im using the date() to create the date as dd/mm/yyyy in a hidden field in the add listing form.

how would id do the expire_date?

Thanks,
Danny Lewin

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by ldtiw
how would id do the expire_date?

That's up to you, since you're writing it, and you've said nothing about the architecture of the program, whether this calculation is to be done in PHP or in the database for example. If you're doing it in the database, then the documentation for your DBMS should cover its time and date functions. If you're doing it in PHP, then PHP's time and date functions (such as [man]mktime[/man] and [man]strtotime[/man] would be relevant.