that wasn't the question you asked :)
there's been some nice answers for +/- > 1 month already, so i won't bother
echoing it again :)
justin french
on 25/04/02 10:21 PM, Craig Keightley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> thanks, i already looked into this but does it also work with month -2, -3
> etc?
> - Original Message -
> From: "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Displaying dates
>
>
>> I strongly recommend reading the date section of the manual... it takes
> all
>> of 5 minutes, and you would have come across strtodate():
>>
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
>>
>> ... which can accept almost any English date/time phrase (like "next
>> month"), and convert it to a Unix time stamp... combined with date()'s
>> ability to accept a given timestamp (as well as the current time), you get
>> exactly what you want in three lines :)
>>
>>
>> >
>> $today = date("j-M-Y H:i");
>> $next_month = date("j-M-Y H:i",strtotime("next month"));
>> $last_month = date("j-M-Y H:i",strtotime("last month"));
>>
>> echo "Last Month: $last_month ";
>> echo "Today: $today ";
>> echo "Next Month: $next_month ";
>>
>> ?>
>>
>>
>> It gets a little more complex when you're not dealing with the current
>> server time I think... but that wasn't your question.
>>
>>
>> Justin French
>>
>> Creative Director
>> http://Indent.com.au
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> on 25/04/02 8:46 PM, Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>
>>> How can i display a dynamic page showing last month and next month and
> the
>>> month before
>>>
>>> eg
>>> this moth is
>>> how do i add 1 to the month or -1 to the month?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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