Re: How should I ....--its a date/timestamp issue (RESOLVED)

Thanks Terion Happy Freecycling Free the List !! www.freecycle.org Over Moderation of Freecycle List Prevents Post Timeliness. ------------------------------------------------ Twitter? http://twitter.com/terionmiller ------------------------------------------------ Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Terion-Miller/1542024891" title="Terion Miller's Facebook profile" target=_TOP><img src=" http://badge.facebook.com/badge/1542024891.237.919247960.png" border=0 alt="Terion Miller's Facebook profile"></a> George Burns - "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age." On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:25:16PM -0600, Terion Miller wrote: > > <snip> > > > 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 > > -- > Paul M. Foster > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >