how to get the server date and add a couple of hours?

[cherrie]

Guys, im a newbie on php.. i want to know how to ad hours into servers date and spit it out on a users browser...


$today = date("Y-m-d"
echo "$today";

This code will print the date. ryt? The question is how to add or subtract hours to $today and spit out in a Y-m-d format so i could use it to query a mysql database..

Tnx and more power..

 

[Hokey]

You could use the time() function to create a unix timestamp and then add/seconds the number of seconds you want to need.

The time() function returns the current time in a unix time stamp format.
The date() function will take a optional second variable of a unix timestamp (if the second option is left blank, then the current time is used).

If you wanted to add one hour (3600 seconds) to the current time it would look like this:

$future_time = time() + 3600;
$today = date("Y-m-d",$future_time);
echo "$today";