Date Functions....There has to be a better way....

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:59 pm

I am working on a Weekly Calendar for a project and there has to be a better way.

Pease don't write the code....just point me in the right direction....

Code:

   $year = $today[year];


   $month = $today[mon];


   $day = $today[mday];





   





$tomorrow = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+1,date("Y"));


echo date("Y/m/d", $tomorrow);


echo "<br>";


$tomorrow2 = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+2,date("Y"));


echo date("Y/m/d", $tomorrow2);


echo "<br>";


$tomorrow3 = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+3,date("Y"));


echo date("Y/m/d", $tomorrow3);


echo "<br>";


$tomorrow4 = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+4,date("Y"));


echo date("Y/m/d", $tomorrow4);


echo "<br>";


$tomorrow5 = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+5,date("Y"));


echo date("Y/m/d", $tomorrow5);


echo "<br>";


$tomorrow6 = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+6,date("Y"));


echo date("Y/m/d", $tomorrow6);


echo "<br>";

This is what I have and it works. What I would really like is an array holding mdY so I can loop through the rest of the code with it.

My bet is that it is real simple and I am having a old age moment.

Dave

registered · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:39 pm

Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! is very useful for these types of things.

There is a lot of date related code you could look at in GCalendar. Smile

Check out the viewweek.php file (I think that is what it is called). That file does GCalendar's weekly view.

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Dawg wrote:

Please don't write the code....just point me in the right direction....

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_date.asp
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
http://www.php-learn-it.com/php_date.html

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:21 pm

This page was my friend when I first started working on GCalendar:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:46 am

Thanks guys. I was already on those like stink. The reak issue is being able to take a users input date and then add 7 days to it.

Take 1-28-08 for example. The function has to be aware that Jan has 31 days and go from 1-31-08 to 2-1-08. I have a loop of really cool stuff to roll through if I can ever get this right.

Dawg

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:42 am

Exactly what the Doctor ordered Wink

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:19 am

Yup, like I said, strtotime is really useful for those types of things. It can parse things like "1-28-08 +7 days".

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:58 am

I never saw that post - sorry!

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:08 am

I have the array and I have it working....but I can not seem to change the date.

I am bringing in varibles from user input...

Code:




echo $month;


echo $day;


echo $year;


$dates_array = array();


for ($i=0; $i<7; $i++) {


  $dates_array[] = date('M-d-Y', strtotime("+$i days"));


}


echo "<br>";


echo $dates_array[1];


echo "<br>";


echo $dates_array[2];


echo "<br>";


echo $dates_array[3];


echo "<br>";


echo $dates_array[4];


echo "<br>";


echo $dates_array[5];


echo "<br>";


echo $dates_array[6];


echo "<br>";

I have tried a 1000 versions of

Code:

$dates_array = array();


for ($i=0; $i<7; $i++) {


  $dates_array[] = date('M-d-Y', strtotime("+$i days"));


}

but I can not get it to except the date input by the users. Guys can you give me a hint....this thing is driving me nuts!

Dawg

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:26 am

In your <form> are you using GET or POST?

Whichever, your PHP script has to pull those values in from the $_GET or $_POST array.

Example:
$month = $_GET['month']
or
$month = $_POST['month']

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:42 am

LOL....That was just where I was echoing out the vars to make sure they were coming through correctly....

This is were I am setting them...

Code:

   $year = (int)$_POST['pyear'];


   $month = (int)$_POST['pmonth'];


   $day = (int)$_POST['pday'];

What I need help with is how to reset the date in the datas array to the year, month and day as set by the user.

Thanks for the help.

registered · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:57 pm

You set $year, $month, and $day... but no where do you use these values to insert into $dates_array

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:14 pm

Evaders,
I have tried about 500 differnt ways but none of them work. So I am asking ya'll
How do I use these values in the $dates_array ?

I looked and looked and looked for an example somewhere but could not find one. I got the array to work..... Smile

Dawg

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:39 pm

Try something like this.

$dates_array = array();
for ($i=0; $i<7; $i++) {
$inDate = "$month-$day-$year";
$inDate = strtotime($inDate);
$inDate = strtotime("+$i days", $inDate);
$dates_array[] = date('M-d-Y', $inDate);
}

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:05 am

Raven,
Thank You! I would have NEVER figured that out!! With your help there I got it!! WOOT WOOT!

I had to change a couple of the formats on the dates adn then explode the vars out and loop through me and bingo...bango it worked.

Thank You to everyone for your help!

Dawg