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

"Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote in message news:20090219022913.GL18160@quillandmouse.com... > 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 Sorry been gone a while. I usually double validate. Once in javascript to make sure the date is valid before submit, and then again in php incase some maroon screws around and/or has javascript disabled on their system. Hope that helps even if it is a bit late.