On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, 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
Okay, scratch that, the standard function works fine
$number_of_days = idate('t', strtotime($year.'-'.$month));
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