help adding 7 days to current GM date

[adammc]

Hi guys,

I have been tearing my hair out trying to work out how to add 7 days onto the current date.

This is how i am calcualting the current date:

// Set the timezone for getting the currrent local time
	$timezone  = +9;

<input type="hidden" name="date" value="<? print gmdate("Y/m/d @ H:i:s", time() + 3600*($timezone+date("I"))); ?>"> 

This is being stored in the DB like this:

$SQL = $SQL . " date_posted DATETIME NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', ";

So, what I am trying to do is create a variable called "Expiry Date" which I want to be $date + 7 days

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Weedpacket]

Have a look at [man]gmmktime[/man] and [man]strtotime[/man]. The first to make a timestamp for a given UTC date/time; the second to "+7 days" (literally).

[adammc]

thanks for the reply 🙂

Am I going to be able to convert $date into the correct timestamp for my geograhic location using those functions ?

AU - +10

Or Am I best converting the timestamp when I want to display it ?