Increase date by one month?

[chapterthree]

Hey All,

Sorry, bad title but I'm not sure how to word this.

So if I have:

$month = date(m);

and I want to increase this by one to get the next month, I can add one which is fine. But if we are in December, is there an easy way to have this "rotate" to January (1) instead of going to 13? Not sure if there is a way to do this with the date function.

So before somebody posts it, I want to avoid the following if possible:

$curr_month = date(m);
if ($curr_month == "12") {
  $next_month = "1";
} else {
  $next_month = $curr_month + 1;
}

[coreyp_1]

look at the strtotime() function and examples. It should work for you quite well.

[bpat1434]

Actually, [man]mktime/man would be better....

<?php

// Let's add one week to the current date
$one_week = date('m - d - Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d')+7, date('Y')));

// How about 3 months? (from todays date (Nov 23rd) will be February 23rd)
$three_mnth = date('m - d - Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m')+3, date('d'), date('Y')));

echo 'One Week ahead: '.$one_week.'<br>Three Months ahead: '.$three_mnth;

?>

That will output:

One Week ahead: 11 - 30 - 2005
Three Months ahead: 2 - 23 - 2006

~Brett

[Weedpacket]

Um, I'm not sure if

$three_mnth = date('m - d - Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m')+3, date('d'), date('Y')));

is better than

$three_mnth=date('m - d - Y', strtotime('+3 months'));

. The latter is shorter and more obvious in its intention - so much so that the fact it's twice as fast is even more irrelevant than usual. The advantage still holds even if you optimise three of those date calls into one like

	list($m,$d,$y) = explode(':', date('m:d:Y'));
	$three_mnth = date('m - d - Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, $m+3, $d, $y));

[bpat1434]

And I stand corrected....

Hence why you have 11k posts, and I only a mere 1k....

~Brett