Re: How should I ....--its a date/timestamp issue
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:29:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How should I ....--its a date/timestamp issue | ||
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:25:16PM -0600, Terion Miller wrote:
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> What about just accepting any date in to the system, and defaulting to
> the current date if any numptys/users try to set one before?
>
> Do something maybe like this (untested)
>
> $userDate = strtotime($_REQUEST['date']);
> $startDate = ($userDate < time())?time():$userDate;
>
> >From there, you can use the timestamp how you wish.
>
> OOH found it:
> $startday = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d")+2,
> date("Y"));
>
> Well no, guess I didn't find it because that code above gives me
> this 1235109600
>
> What is that??
It's a *nix timestamp number. Give it to date() this way:
date('Y-m-d', $startday)
And you'll see the date it represents. (It's actually the number of
seconds since, the Unix epoch, in 1970.)
Paul
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Paul M. Foster