Re: Date calculation

Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote: >I have one more date based question. > >I have a month field ( $month ) and a day field ( $day ) being submitted >by a form. > >I have a third field to be used as a date reminder for the information >which was submitted as part of the form. It is a reminder to complete a >task for the date was which was submitted as part of the form. > >How do I calculate the $reminder date based on $month and $day and have >it output in the YYYY-MM-DD format? $reminder is the number of days >before $month $day (I want to use $reminder in a date format to SELECT >records from a mySQL table) This is why I am wanting put $reminder into >a date format > >If $month was 6 and $day was 7 and $reminder was 6 then I would want the >output to be 2007-06-01 --- We have already passed June 1st in 2006. >However if $month was 11 then I would want the output to use this years >date --- 2006-11-01 > >Any suggestions? > >Ron > > > I think it would be easier to ask the user to enter his reminder in the standard date format of yyyy-mm-dd and use a JavaScript date picker box to prompt for it. Anyway, you could do something like this: $reminderStamp = strtotime("+{$addMonths} months",time()); $reminderStamp = strtoTime("+{$addDays} days",$reminderStamp); $date = date("Y-m-d",$reminderStamp); $date should have a string like yyyy-mm-dd that is $addMonths and $addDays into the future. I didn't test this. Travis Doherty