[RESOLVED] Weedpacket help with your age calculator

kingdm

I found this age calculator by Weedpacket here in phpbuilder, because the one I'm using is totally out of track.

Upon testing Weedpacket's age calculator, it seems that it works fine. However, it has bug (correct me if I'm wrong). Here it is :

<?php
$year = 1987;
$month = 1;
$day = 2;



$day=(empty($day))?'1':$day;

list($this_year, $this_month, $this_day) = explode(' ',date('Y n j'));
$age = $this_year - $year;

if ($month>$this_month||($this_month==$month&&$this_day<$day)) {
    $age--;
}

echo $age;
?>

The output is 23 which is right (Today is January 2, 2010 here in Philippines). However if I changed the value of $day to 3, the output is 22, which is wrong, right?

Weedpacket

No; if your birthday is 3 January 1987 (i.e., $day=3), and today is only the 2nd, then you don't turn 23 until tomorrow.

kingdm

Thanks for clarifying that on me Weedpacket. I'm quite confused back a while ago. By the way, having date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Manila'); in my header script means that all my date related script will be set on that timezone?

bradgrafelman

kingdm wrote:
By the way, having date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Manila'); in my header script means that all my date related script will be set on that timezone?

Yes, although it's best (and much easier) to set it in one place, e.g. in php.ini or .htaccess if using the ISAPI module for the Apache web server.

kingdm

Thanks for the suggestion bradgrafelman. I guess I'll do it once I'm into web hosting, for now I stick in local server XAMPP, since I'm only beginner.

Huge thanks once more. 😃