[RESOLVED] adding three days to a date!

spiritssight

Hello,

I need to add 3 days to the current date?

the reason is:

I have created a activation sys for people that create a account,
when they create the account a activation code and expired date gets added to a table called activation, I have it all setup to add the date to the sys but I want it to add three days to it so the person has activate the account with then that time peirod

if its 2008-01-25 23:59:59 it will give the expired date of 2008-01-28 I don't care about the time as once the 28 pass its expired

any ideas?

Also how can I compare if the date is older then the current date?

Sincerely,
Christopher

dagon

$threedays = strtotime("now") + (259200);

spiritssight

so if I am using date(Y-m-d), its easer to give them the date in a email that it will expire

$current_time = time();
$day_three_time = $current_time + ( 3600 * 72 );
$expire_date = date( "Y-m-d", $day_three_time );

echo $expire_date;

Is there a better way to write this?

Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,
Christopher

Weedpacket

$three_days_time = [man]strtotime[/man]('+3 days') is (I think) easier to read, and more reliable since it won't be confused by the fact that some days are 23 hours long and some are 25.

spiritssight

Thanks, I was thinking that but I said to my self it can not be that simple

I had the code writen like the below code and it did not work:

<?php
$default_timezone = "UTC";  // take out once system has default timezone set
date_default_timezone_set ( $default_timezone );  // take out once system has default timezone set

$three_days_time = strtotime('+3d');
echo date( "Y-m-d", $three_days_time);
?>

Code that works, may use change or not but it work

<?php
$default_timezone = "UTC";  // take out once system has default timezone set
date_default_timezone_set ( $default_timezone );  // take out once system has default timezone set

$three_days_time = strtotime('+3 days');
echo date( "Y-m-d", $three_days_time);
?>

Thanks for the response and help!

Sincerely,
Christopher