Re: Displaying dates

that wasn't the question you asked :) there's been some nice answers for +/- > 1 month already, so i won't bother echoing it again :) justin french on 25/04/02 10:21 PM, Craig Keightley (ckeightley@sitedesign.net) wrote: > thanks, i already looked into this but does it also work with month -2, -3 > etc? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> > To: "Craig" <craig@sitedesign.net> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Displaying dates > > >> I strongly recommend reading the date section of the manual... it takes > all >> of 5 minutes, and you would have come across strtodate(): >> >> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php >> >> ... which can accept almost any English date/time phrase (like "next >> month"), and convert it to a Unix time stamp... combined with date()'s >> ability to accept a given timestamp (as well as the current time), you get >> exactly what you want in three lines :) >> >> >> <? >> >> $today = date("j-M-Y H:i"); >> $next_month = date("j-M-Y H:i",strtotime("next month")); >> $last_month = date("j-M-Y H:i",strtotime("last month")); >> >> echo "Last Month: $last_month <BR>"; >> echo "Today: $today <BR>"; >> echo "Next Month: $next_month <BR>"; >> >> ?> >> >> >> It gets a little more complex when you're not dealing with the current >> server time I think... but that wasn't your question. >> >> >> Justin French >> -------------------- >> Creative Director >> http://Indent.com.au >> -------------------- >> >> >> >> on 25/04/02 8:46 PM, Craig (craig@sitedesign.net) wrote: >> >>> How can i display a dynamic page showing last month and next month and > the >>> month before >>> >>> eg >>> this moth is <?php echo date("j-M-Y H:i"); ?> >>> how do i add 1 to the month or -1 to the month? >>> >>> >> >> >