note 55478 deleted from function.date by derick
| From: | derick@php.net | Date: | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:44:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 55478 deleted from function.date by derick | ||
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Note Submitter: thammer at rtccom dot com
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Relative dates (ie, Today, Yesterday, etc..) are missing from the date function. So I wrote this
function to replace date(). It returns Today, Yesterday, or Day of the Week relative to {today} up
to 6 days. Anything older than that, and it will use the formatting you would normally apply to
date(). I hope somebody finds this useful.
<?
//Returns Today,Yesterday, Day of week ('l')
//up to 6 days ago. Otherwise it uses $format
function RelativeDate($format,$epoch) {
$day = date('j',$epoch);
$today = date('j',time());
$yday = date('j',strtotime("-1 day"));
//account for last month's day
switch($day) {
case $today: return "Today"; break;
case $yday: return "Yesterday"; break;
default:
//Look up to one week ago
for($i=1;$i<=6;$i++) {
$pastday = date('j',strtotime("-$i days"));
if($day == $pastday) {
return(date('l',$epoch));
}
}
//If we made it to here, just print the format given
return date($format,$epoch);
}
}
?>