inputting date

[include_me]

id like to put the date into the value="" tag of a hidden form. I want it to enter the current days date in the format yyyy-mm-dd What php would I have to insert inbetween the value="" tags?

Thanks
Chris

[Norman_Graham]

Hi Chris

This is an RTFM, but I'm not like that:

value="<?php echo date("Y-m-d"); ?>"

Norm

[include_me]

Hi Thanks for that!

I figured it out about 5 mins after i posted.

what does RTFM mean?

Chris

[cahva]

what does RTFM mean?

Read The Fuc.. Read The Funny Manual 😉 Replace Funny with the more popular f-word and you get the idea 😃

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html

[jami3]

im feeling in a good mood and i will type the date functions for you 😃 as you will find them verry usefull if you are suing the date() function

character --- format
a ------------- am or pm
A ------------- AM or PM
d ------------- Day of the month as two digits including leading
----------------zeros (01 to 31)
D ------------- Day of the week with 3 letters eg. mon , tue .wed..
F-------------Month long form, eg January
g------------- Hour of the day in 12 hour format without leading
----------------zeros from 1 to 12
G-------------Hour of the day in 24 hour format without leading
-------------zeros form 0 to 23
h-------------Hour of the day in 12 hour format from 01 to 12
H-------------Hour of the day in 24 hour format from 00 to 23
i -------------Minutes: 00 to 59
j-------------Day of the month without leading zeros from 1 to 31
l(lowercase L)--- Day of the week, long form eg, Monday
m-------------Month as 2 digits from 01 to 12
M-------------Month as 3 letters eg Jan , Feb
n-------------Month as digits from 1 to 12 (without leading zeros)
s-------------Seconds from 00 to 59
S-------------English ordina suffix as 2 charicters; th,nd,rd ect.
t-------------number of days in the given month 28 to 31
U-------------seconds to the epoch
w-------------week of the day as a singal digit 0 being sunday
------------- and saturday being 6
y-------------year as 2 digits eg 05
Y-------------Year as 4 digits eg 2005
z-------------Day of the year from 0 to 365

Hope this helped 😃

[onedingo]

To jami3:
I know it's a typo but there are times I too feel like suing the date() function... :p

[Frederick]

it is more useful to use the time() function so you can do more with the date you enter.

<input type="hidden" name="postdate" value="<?php echo time();?>">

then you can echo it with your sql query.

echo date("Y-m-d",$row["postdate"]);

You can query dates in a range of your choice.

$fromdate = time()-(604800); // 7 days back
$todate = time()-(1209600) // 14 days back
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE postdate BETWEEN '$fromdate' AND '$todate' ";

[jami3]

Lmao i just worked out what you meant what i was suposed to say was if you are using the date() function 😛