[RESOLVED] Get Date of Today + Number of Days

Arc

Hey guys. I am looking for a function that can return a date based on number of days from today.

For example:

$today=date("m-d-Y");
$theFutureDate=FutureDate($today,8);

If today was 11-01-2007 the function would return 11-09-2007

Is there anything like that built into php? If not does anyone know how to go about it?

Thanks!🙂

bradgrafelman

echo date('m-d-Y', strtotime('today +8 days'));

See manual for: [man]strtotime/man.

Arc

Interesting..and thanks for the help. However, I am getting an unexpected result.

Instead of returning a date it is returning a number....

I have tried

echo date('m/d/Y',strtotime('+ 8 days'));

and

echo date('m-d-Y', strtotime('today +8 days'));

neither return a date. Am I doing something wrong? I know the date function expects a timestamp which strtotime provides, so I am nost sure what the issue is.

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

The code I provided:

echo date('m-d-Y', strtotime('today +8 days'));

outputted "10-27-2007", so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work for you. In fact, both lines that you posted worked fine for me.

What version of PHP are you using? Is display_errors set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL ? Are you getting any messages from PHP?

Arc

There is no error it just returns a number instead of a date..such as 0.0001916369629374114

Thanks for the help.

Arc

Never mind, there is nothing wrong with the code. I was passing the returned value to a javascript function that is putting the value in a textbox and for some reason the ajvascript is turning the date into a number.../boggle

But anyway, that is another issue.

Thanks a lot for the help!