RE: [PHP] Incrementing dates

I am not sure on how your possibilities are, but doing this in PHP means literally "adding useless lines and loops" If possible, do it with SQL queries. Read the documentations on date datatypes, this is so much easier... almost magic. Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) maxim@phpbeginner.com www.phpbeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: Martin Skjoldebrand [mailto:chimbis@skjoldebrand.org] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 4:15 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Incrementing dates James, Yz wrote: >If anyone has any comments on this, I'd like to > hear > them (there's probably a simpler way around what I have done). Here's the > URL: > > http://www.yorkshire-zone.co.uk/date_increment.php > > And here's the code that powers it: > > <HTML> > <BODY> > > <? > > $date = date("2001-04-28"); > list($year, $month, $day) = explode("-", $date); > > $actual_date = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year); > > $days_to_add = 7; > > $x = 1; > > while($x <= $days_to_add) { > > $make_date = getdate($actual_date); > > echo "Day $x: $make_date[mday] $make_date[month], > $make_date[year]<BR><BR>"; > > $actual_date = $actual_date + (3600 * 24); > > $x++; > > } > > ?> > > </body> > </html> Thanks James! You started me off in the right direction. And ... with a few beers less in the brain (and a look at php.net and PHP Developers Cookbook) I finally found that mktime actually increments dates correctly. So, given that $month, $day and $year are valid and that we want to add 10 days to the output we can do: echo date ("Y-m-d", mktime (0,0,0,$month, $day, $year)) . "<br>"; for($i=1; $i<=9; $i++) { $day++; echo date ("Y-m-d", mktime (0,0,0,$month, $day, $year)) . "<br>"; } Cheers, Martin S. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net