[RESOLVED] Help with Wedding Widget

PSimpson2003

I am creating a wedding planner widget, which is designed to help you figure out exactly what needs to be done and when it needs to be done for your wedding.

My first php page has a simple text box, which askes them to enter in their wedding date, and once they have done that, they would click the submit button which would then take them to another php page that has a list of all tasks they need to get done before their wedding.

The issue that I am having is that I need to figure out how I would show the date range for each task. Example:

Twelve to Sixteen Months Before Wedding (Show the range here, depending on the date they enter for wedding)

I have several of these I need to include a date range, can someone help me figure out how I would do this.

Thanks!!

I am creating a Wedding Planner, which is designed to help you figure out exactly what needs to be done and when it needs to be done for your wedding.

My first php is a simple text box asking them to insert their wedding date. And then when they click the submit button it takes them to another php page which gives them a list of things that needs to be done before the wedding.

farius

Simpson,

This is would be a very dynamic oriented script, and a great idea. How I would approach it is first,

calculate how many weeks the user has until there wedding.

Then pull from a database all the steps normally required for a wedding ie.(call the florist, get a cake ect.) then rate them depending on importance and time sensitive.

I would say a very important item would be get a wedding dress. Thus this has a importance rating of 1, and it should be completed 3 months before the wedding day. (I have never been married so I really don't know wedding time frames, these are just arbitrary numbers). But also I would think that equally important (if not more) you need a place to have the weeding. Thus this also gets a level of 1, but this needs to be done before a dress is bought.

Thus order based on level, then date.

Now you will have varying timeframes, ie(3months, 16 months) for planning to occur. Depending on how busy the person is, I would say for anything greater than 12 months you can say that compleeting one of your tasks a week or so would be sufficient, and then base how many steps a week need to be completed based on conditionals.

Hope this helps, if not provide a little more clarity and I will refine my post and maybe others can help as well.

-Farius

Liz_SA

This is probably not exactly what you looking for but it may help and looks like it has some nice functions.
http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/13644.html

PSimpson2003

Here is the php code that got it to work:

<?php

$weddingdate = $_POST['weddingdate'];
$finalDate = strtotime( $weddingdate );

$twelveMonths = $finalDate - 31104000;
$sixteenMonths = $finalDate - 41472000;
$nineMonths = $finalDate - 23328000;
$sevenMonths = $finalDate - 18144000;
$twoMonths = $finalDate - 5184000;
$oneMonths = $finalDate - 2592000;
$weddingWeek = $finalDate - 691200 ;
$weddingWeek2 = $finalDate - 86400;

$twelveMonthsStr = date( 'F j, Y', $twelveMonths );
$sixteenMonthsStr = date( 'F j, Y', $sixteenMonths );
$nineMonthsStr = date( 'F j, Y', $nineMonths );
$sevenMonthsStr = date( 'F j, Y', $sevenMonths );
$twoMonthsStr = date( 'F j, Y', $twoMonths );
$oneMonthsStr = date( 'F j, Y', $oneMonths );
$weddingWeekStr = date( 'F j, Y', $weddingWeek );
$weddingWeek2Str = date( 'F j, Y', $weddingWeek2 );
$weddingDayStr = date( 'F j, Y', $finalDate );

nrg_alpha

Perfect! Now you just have to follow this all up with a block-buster divorce widget. The to-do-widget listing on that bad boy would be quite interesting 😉