Merlin wrote: > I am trying to create a date which is 25 years back from today. The > purpose of > this is to be able to query a mysql database "date" field for columns > smaller > than this date. > > I tried this: > $years = 25; //> $start_from = date("Y-m-d",strtotime("- ".$years." year")); > > Somehow it always ads the years instead of subtracting. > > Has anybody an idea on how to do that? You can do this in all MySQL: select ... where date_field <= sub_date(now(), interval 25 years) Or you could try: $back_then = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d'), date('Y') - 25); $start_from = date("Y-m-d", $back_then); -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php