simple php_date question

[flyingsheep]

i need to use the date() function, however, the date must be formatted like this: 011304 if the date was 01/13/04, how should i do this, also, is there a way to only return the first few letters of the date() function, if so, how, thank you very much in advance

 

[Bastien]

date("mdy");

what you mean by letters? the first letters of the day value(ie wed, thu)? then use "D"...

date("D");

the manual has all the answers

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[JRBeltman]

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

can help you if you are passing a non date to php.

But it is best to make sure that you are actually using a date field in your database.

I used the above function eventhough I had a date field in my database and still required this function because the date() function did not co-operate

JR
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[flyingsheep]

here is what i need, this is all for

http://www.zippythepinhead.com's

homepage if you need the source, what i need to do is; use the date() php function to change the following date formats:

27-Jun-04

sun2004 (where only the year changes)

062704 (this is 06/27/04)

and i also need a counter which increases by one every day but is not in fact a date, for example, today is 23 on the counter but the date is 27.

i think i could do this in php, but i am not sure how, can someone point me in the right direction?

thanks in advance

 

[sleipnir214]

Let's not muddy the waters about the automatic increment question. You've already started a thread on that.



About dates....as Bastien has indicated, PHP's date() function can output the current date in a custom format.

And as JRBeltman has pointed out, you can use strtotime() to convert a date string to a number date() can use as its second optional input.




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[DRJ478]

I don't know in what time zone you are, but here on the US East Coast it is the 29th, not the 27th.
Please clarify:

use the date() php function to change the following date formats:

27-Jun-04 to what?

sun2004 (where only the year changes) to what?

062704 (this is 06/27/04) to what?

The counter is simple. You need only define the relative start date/time and subtract it from the current date.

$startDate = strtotime('2004-06-05 09:20:00');
# difference in second divided by seconds/minutes/hours
$var_days = (time() - $startDate) / 86400;
echo (intval($var_days));

 

[flyingsheep]

im sorry, those dates are old, but i want to have the current dates, so that they change daily

 

[flyingsheep]

so that

27-Jun-04 becomes 28-Jun-04

sun2004 becomes sun2005 (once a year)

062704 becomes 062804

 

[sleipnir214]

The first and the third can be handled by simply having PHP dynamically produce the content of the page. Your users don't point their browsers to an HTML file -- they point their browsers to the script.

Then include an invocation of date() with the appropriate date format string. The date string will be appropriate to the current date.



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