Re: Date format question

Hi Don, you need to use mktime() and maybe substr() to get the date split up into the right variables to supply to mktime: <? function Mk14DaysFromNow($date) { // Split the date up $year = substr($date, 0, 4); $month = substr($date, 5, 2); $day = substr($date, 7, 2); // Make a timestamp to feed to date() later $timestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year); $date_we_want = $timestamp + (86400 * 14); // 86400 = seconds in a day // Put the date into our format: $display_date = date("m", $date_we_want) . "/" . date("d", $date_we_want) . "/" date("Y", $date_we_want); return $display_date; } echo Mk14DaysFromNow("20011015"); ?> http://www.php.net/substr http://www.php.net/mktime http://www.php.net/date Hope that helps, James "Don" <don@lclcan.com> wrote in message news:01cd01c155a7$b66bc4e0$c889cdcd@lclcan.com... Hi, I have a date string in the following format: yyyymmdd. So today's date would show as 20011015 What I want to do is add 14 days to the date (month and year changes are verified) and produce output that looks like, mmm-dd-yyyy as in: Oct-29-2001 (I know I can use the "date()" function to accomplish the latter. Does anyone have a function that does the above? Thanks, Don