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[Jeremy Hise]

Hi!

I'm not gonna go into details here, but just about all PHP date
functions use the unix timestamp..which may seem a little odd if you are
coming from M$. However, this turns out to be great because it actually
eleminates the problem of going into the next month and makes date
handling really easy.

For instance, to print the date, you say something like:

print (date("M Y"));

This will give you "May 2002";

Now, you can use a function called mktime() like this:

$new_timestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 15, 2002);

Now if you say,

print (date("M d Y", $new_timestamp));

You will get:

"May 15 2002".

The "next month" problem is solved because if you say,

$new_timestamp = mktime(0,0,0,5,32,2002);

You will get

June 1 2002

Cool huh?

Good luck!

Jeremy

NOTE: Some syntax may be off a bit, but use PHP.net as your reference.
You can type in http://www.php.net/mktime and it will redirect you to
the function definition for mktime(), etc.


On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 23:40, jose sanchez wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I would like to know how I can use dates in PHP.
> 
> This is what I would like to accomplish:
> 
> First I would like to assign a starting date, for
> example:
> 5/11/02.
> 
> I would like to add seven days to it so it will be
> Sat. May 18th and one day so it can be Sun. May 19th.
> 
> I would like to do this for every week. At the same
> time, assign a week number according to the date. For
> example; May 11th and 12th would be week #1. Now, May
> 18th and 19th would be week #2 and so on...
> 
> I know it will be a problem when the month changes. In
> other words what I like to create is a schedule thats
> in a database and loaded according to the week_no.
> 
> Any idea on how I can accomplish this.
> 
> Your help would be very apreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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