Testing Dates 1

[craigward]

Hi,

I need to test a dropdown and based on it's value take todays date and add a certain number of days to that date.


Here are the dropdown values and the number of days dependant on which is selected. See my code below.

Problem i have is this, what if the date is 30/07/2009 and i need to add 5 days on. The way i have it at the moment the result will look like 35/07/2009 which is no good i need it to work out the date logic and give methe result of 04/08/2009

Does anyone have any hints for this? Thanks in adavnce

Assessment = 2 days
Planned = 5 days
Active = 3 days

<script language="">
<!--
var today_date= new Date()
var month=today_date.getMonth()+1
var today=today_date.getDate()
var year=today_date.getFullYear()


function function1(Sales_Stage) {
    var Sales_Stage = (Sales_Stage.options[Sales_Stage.selectedIndex].text);
    if (Sales_Stage == "ASSESSMENT") {
	alert((today+2)+"/"+month+"/"+year);
	} 
	else if (Sales_Stage == "PLANNED") {

	alert((today+5)+"/"+month+"/"+year);
	}
	else if (Sales_Stage == "ACTIVE") {
    
	alert((today+3)+"/"+month+"/"+year);
	}
}
-->
</script>



<select name="_sales_stage" id="_sales_stage" class=ScheduleActivityType onChange=function1(this);  format=Text >
<option></option> 
<option>ACTIVE</option> 
<option>ASSESSMENT</option> 
<option selected>PLANNED</option> 
<option>REFERRAL</option> 
</select>

 

[ggriffit]

A quick google yields lots of hits including

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/web/js/date/add_days.html

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[feherke]

Hi

Use [tt]Date.setTime()[/tt] for such operations :

[gray]// today + milliseconds in a second * seconds in a minute * minutes in an hour * hours in a day * days to add[/gray]
today_date[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]setTime[/color][teal]([/teal]today_date[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]getTime[/color][teal]()+[/teal][purple]1000[/purple][teal]*[/teal][purple]60[/purple][teal]*[/teal][purple]60[/purple][teal]*[/teal][purple]24[/purple][teal]*[/teal][purple]5[/purple][teal])[/teal]

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Bong]

Or you could just add the number of days with setDate:

var d=new Date()
alert(d.toString())  //shows today's date
d.setDate(d.getDate()+9)
alert(d.toString()) //shows today's date plus 9 days

_________________
Bob Rashkin

 

[feherke]

Hi

Yepp. I think I should review my old habits. I vaguely remember that I had a problem with that some years ago. Probably with a browser that disappeared in meantime...

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[craigward]

Thanks for all your help. Bong your example did the job perfectly. Thanks again