Re: Function mktime() documentation question

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Charles <peacech@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Charles <peacech@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mar 9, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Charles wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Ford, Mike wrote: >>>>>>> From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:tedd.sperling@gmail.com] >>>>>>> But why does anyone have to use the next month to figure out how >>>>>>> many days there are are in this month? Do you see my point? >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, no. To figure this out, somewhere along the line you've >>>>>> got to know where the last day of this month / first day of next >>>>>> month boundary lies, so I don't see how you can ever find the number >>>>>> of days in a month without bringing the start of next month into it >>>>>> somehow. (Even if it's implicitly be getting someone else's >>>>>> clever >>>>>> code to figure out 'last day of this month'!) >>>>> >>>>> Well no, I don't need to know the first day of next month to know the last >>>>> day of this month. That's like saying "I need to know who is going to stand at the >>>>> 'end of the line' NEXT before I can tell who is standing at the 'end of the' >>>>> line NOW." >>>> >>>> The number of days in each month is fixed, except for february. If >>>> that's what you want, why don't make a table of the number of days in >>>> each month, and check for the special case of leap year. >>> >>> No offense, but that's not the point. A look-up table would work, but why when >>> there are all sorts of built-in functions that will? >> >> You just said yourself that "I don't need to know the first day of >> next month to know the last day of this month", and AFAIK there is no >> such function in PHP to get the number of days >> without accessing the last second in the month. Besides, showing how >> it is done is part of education. > > Unless, of course you install the "calendar" extension, of which it > will provides just the required function > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.cal-days-in-month.php Okay, scratch that, the standard function works fine $number_of_days = idate('t', strtotime($year.'-'.$month));