Re: how to generate a date between 1998 and today by random?

Try making use of a timestamp via the strtotime. You'll have to do the math, but you can generate a random number with the range being the number of seconds in the date range and then adding the remaining offset. Then convert the timestamp back to a date with everyones favorite date() function. Andy wrote:

hi there, I am wondering if there is an easy way to generate a random date. It would work by creating arrays of values and then just selecting like: $year = array(2002, 2003, 2004, 2005); $month = array ('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sept','Okt','Nov','Dez'); $date = $month[rand(0,count($month))].' '.rand(0,31).', '.$year[rand(0,count($year))]; But there might be an easyer and faster (better performant) way. Thanx for any help, Andy