help me figure out this date thing

sarmenhb · 09-14-2008, 10:03 PM

i created this application where a user signs up for something what i want to do is the second the user signs up the date that is inserted into the db is 3 weeks ahead of the signup date for example.

if i signed up on the application todays date would be 9/14/2008 and the date that is inserted into the database would be 10/5/2008 (which is 3 weeks ahead of the sign up date)

how would this be codded???
thanks

Karl · 09-14-2008, 10:18 PM

php Code:

$iToday = time();
$iNext = strtotime('+3 weeks', $iToday);

sarmenhb · 09-14-2008, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karl

php Code:

$iToday = time();
$iNext = strtotime('+3 weeks', $iToday);

thanks, but how do i show that as ##/##/## format?

xenon · 09-14-2008, 10:31 PM

PHP Code:


			
echo date('m/d/Y', $iNext);

Check out the date function on php.net.

ETbyrne · 09-15-2008, 02:23 AM

Amazing! I never knew it was this easy to find future/previous dates and times!

Salathe · 09-15-2008, 04:20 PM

Looking forwards, with more recent versions of PHP (5.3 I think) we can make use of the DateTime and DateInterval objects. For example, to add three weeks we could do the following:

PHP Code:


			
<?php header('Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8'); error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

$now      = new DateTime();
$future   = clone $now;
$interval = new DateInterval('P3W');
// or, $interval = date_interval_create_from_date_string('+3 weeks');

$future->add($interval);
// or, date_add($future, $interval);

echo 'Current time: ',
     $now->format('jS M Y H:i:s'),
     PHP_EOL,
     'Future time: ',
     $future->format('jS M Y H:i:s');