Re: date plus 7 more days

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44, Jacky wrote: > Hi all > I have variable that store date like this : > $First = "$year" . "$month" . "$date"; ( which return 20010201 > for Feb > 1,2001) . I wanna do the loop 8 times that will add 7 more days to the > begining date and keep adding it for 8 times. The looping thing is okay > but I am not sure if I simply plus 7 on top of date value will give me > the date value I want to have. Is this sniplet below okay? > ************** > $First = "$year" . "$month" . "$date"; > for ($i=1; $i < 9 ; ++$i){ > $First = $First + 7 ; > } > ******************* Try it and you'll see why it won't work as you expect. Then check the manual for mktime which can do what you want. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA