Re: number of days in a month

From: Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:04:39 +0000
Subject: Re: number of days in a month
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juhl@eisenstein.dk (Jesper Juhl) writes: > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there an easy way in PHP4 to get the number of days in any given > > > month? > > > <skip>... > > > Hi! > > > There is function 'date()', which has a lot of nice formatting > > possibilities > > including number of days in given month. > > > See chapter 'IX. Date and Time functions' -> 'date()' from PHP > > manual. > > > Hope this helps. > > > > -- > > Pavel a.k.a. Papi > > > -- > > I couldn't seem to get date() to return the number of days in a month, so > I handled it like this: > (...) $month = 1; $year = 2000; $days = date( "j", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month + 1, 1, $year) - 1 ); You could also use the function gregoriantojd(int month, int day, int year) if you the calendar extensions built. I haven't. -robin -- Robin Vickery............................................... Planet-Three, 3A West Point, Warple Way, London, W3 0RG, UK Email: robin@planet-three.net Phone: +44 (0)870 729 5444

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