Charles <peac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Charles <peac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Tedd Sperling ><tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mar 9, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Charles wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Tedd Sperling ><tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Ford, Mike wrote: >>>>>>> From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] >>>>>>> But why does anyone have to use the next month to figure out how >>>>>>> many days there are are in this month? Do you see my point? >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, no. To figure this out, somewhere along the line you've >>>>>> got to know where the last day of this month / first day of next >>>>>> month boundary lies, so I don't see how you can ever find the >number >>>>>> of days in a month without bringing the start of next month into >it >>>>>> somehow. (Even if it's implicitly be getting someone else's >clever >>>>>> code to figure out 'last day of this month'!) >>>>> >>>>> Well no, I don't need to know the first day of next month to know >the last day of this month. That's like saying "I need to know who is >going to stand at the 'end of the line' NEXT before I can tell who is >standing at the 'end of the' line NOW." >>>> >>>> The number of days in each month is fixed, except for february. If >>>> that's what you want, why don't make a table of the number of days >in >>>> each month, and check for the special case of leap year. >>> >>> No offense, but that's not the point. A look-up table would work, >but why when there are all sorts of built-in functions that will? >> >> You just said yourself that "I don't need to know the first day of >> next month to know the last day of this month", and AFAIK there is no >> such function in PHP to get the number of days >> without accessing the last second in the month. Besides, showing how >> it is done is part of education. > >Unless, of course you install the "calendar" extension, of which it >will provides just the required function > >http://php.net/manual/en/function.cal-days-in-month.php > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php What about just doing this: intval(date("t")); And you can pass in an argument to date() if you need a specific month. Thanks, Ash http://ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
