PHP5 equivalent for mktime()

[bump909]

Hi,

I have used the mktime() function for a number of years but I hear it is now deprecated in PHP5. Does anyone have an PHP5 compliant method for comparing a submitted date in a form to the 'now' date as well as comparing it with days of the week.

Here is my existing code:

if (checkdate($_POST['delivery_date_month'], $_POST['delivery_date_day'], $_POST['delivery_date_year'])){

$epochdate = mktime(0,0,0,$_POST['delivery_date_month'], $_POST['delivery_date_day'], $_POST['delivery_date_year'], 0);

$delivery_date=$_POST['delivery_date_year'].'-'.$_POST['deliveryl_date_month'].'-'.$_POST['delivery_date_day']; // MySQL Date Format
					$ampm = $_POST['ampm'];

				// Check for order date against minimum delivery date
				$min_del_date = date("Ymd", strtotime("+2 day"));

				if (date("Ymd", $epochdate) < $min_del_date){
					$message .=  'We cannot deliver on this day ('.date("d-M-Y", $epochdate).'). Please enter a delivery date at least 2 working days from now. If you require next day delivery please phone and we will try to help.';
					$delivery_date = NULL;
				} elseif (date("D", $epochdate) == 'Sun'){
					$message .=  'We do not deliver on a Sunday. Please enter a delivery date on an alternate day.';
					$delivery_date = NULL;
				}
}

Thanks

[bpat1434]

What you hear and what are are apparently two different things:

THE MANUAL wrote:

mktime
(PHP 4, PHP 5)

Now, they may mean that there's a 7th parameter that is deprecated as of 5.1 since they want you to use the php.ini settings for timezones.