Er, not to be a pedant, but why aren't you using PHP's built-in
date/time functions?
check out date() and strtotime() to do what your shell commands
currently do. For example, here're a few lines from code I've written:
$now = strtotime("tomorrow");
$end = strtotime("Last Wednesday", $now); // Today's last Wednesday
$thismonth = strtotime(date("m/01/Y"));
for($m = 0; $m < 12; $m++) {
$s = ($m > 0) ? "s" : "";
$t_month[(11 - $m)] = strtotime(date("m/d/Y", $thismonth) . " -$m
month$s");
$n_month[(11 - $m)] = date("M", $t_month[(11 - $m)]);
}
strtotime is pretty good at understanding English descriptions of
moments in time, and date() can take a ton of arguments to format a
date/time stamp.
PHP manual for date():
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
for strtotime():
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
HTH,
~Brian
Matt Frye wrote:
Can someone tell me why the following code would not set $startdated
to the correct date? Stuff inside the 'switch' seems to go into a
black hole, even when it evals correctly.
<?php
$day = `date +%A`;
print "<br>Day is $day - Before<br>";
switch ($day) {
case "Monday":
print "<br>Day is $day - During<br>";
$startdated = `date +%Y-%m-%d -d 'a week ago' ` ;
break;
case "Tuesday":
print "<br>Day is $day - During<br>";
$startdated = `date +%Y-%m-%d -d '8 days ago' ` ;
break;
}
print "<br>Day is $day - After<br>";
?>
--
----------------
Brian A. Henning
strutmasters.com
336.597.2397x238
----------------
--
TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/
TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
