Re: Making several variables into 1 variable

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:32 -0400, Miller, Terion wrote: > I need to take this: > > $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days"); > > > > $past_day = date("d", $pastDays); > > $past_month = date("m", $pastDays); > > $past_year =date("y", $pastDays); > > > And make it into one var to compare to a db field that is formatted like > 00/00/00 > > Erm, why don't you do this: $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days"); $date = date("d/m/y", $pastDays); The date() function allows you to mix in all sorts of characters into the output it formats, and you can escape characters that have special meaning with a slash '\' character. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk