[RESOLVED] Option box with dates

Rasmus

Hi!

I don't know if this is the right forum section, but I'll get it a try.

On my site, I want a select/option-box that are meant to show first of all, the actual day date, like today: 2010-02-08 and then it is meant to show the next 29 days too.

So, we say it is:
2010-02-08 date("Y-m-d");
2010-02-09
2010-02-10
2010-02-11
2010-02-12

and so on...

Now to the real questions:
I know that I need some sort of editable date function in php and a counter, that adds 1 everytime it has looped with a for or a while loop.

But when I tried to mix some example codes from the net with some of the date functions, I could not sort it out and it wouldn't work properly.

Does someone have any idea about how I can make this work?

halojoy

I would go from time() which is seconds
and add 24*3600 seconds
and use date(xxx) to get the format

<?php

$now = time(); // seconds
$add = 24*3600; // add 24 hours constant

$days30 = array();
for($i=0; $i<30;$i++)
	$days30[] = date('Y-m-d', $now + $i * $add);

echo '<pre>';
print_r($days30);

bradgrafelman

Here's my solution, which works if a) you're running PHP 5.3.0 or newer, and b) like really long for() loop declarations. :p

for($int = new DateInterval("P1D"), $date = new DateTime, $i=0; $i < 29; $date->add($int), $i++)
    echo $date->format("Y-m-d") . "\n";

EDIT: Shortened version, because I decided to RTFM:

for($date = new DateTime, $i = 0; $i < 29; $date->modify("+1 day"), $i++)
    echo $date->format("Y-m-d") . "\n";

Rasmus

Thanks really much. I used the last example from the last writer which was really optimized and clean. It was this i really needed for my website.

Thanks to you all!