Re: php & date manupulation functions

Rajesh Fowkar wrote:

Hello, There seems to be very few date manupulation functions in php. In my php form I am displaying select combos for day, month and year. Now while updating the form I want to retrieve the date and take out day, month and year from that date and display the correct selection in the combo. I could not find any function like say day($dbdate); month($dbdate); year($dbdate); Am I missing something ? Is there anyway to accomplish the above ? or I will have to store these three values separatly in the database rather than as a date.

yes, you are missing it. you need to do the opposite. first read this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php and everything will become clear... btw, if the current date is jan 1, 2000, then $day = date ("d"); $month = date ("m"); $year = "date ("y"); echo $day; // would return "01" echo $month; // would return "01" echo 4year; //would return "00" -- Leo G. Divinagracia III ldivinag@csuhayward.edu