I generally use strtotime() as the swiss army knife of PHP date handling. You
give it a string and a timestamp to use as a base, and it gives you back a
new timestamp. So you can say:
strtotime("+6 months", $sometimestamp);
And it will give you back the time stamp six months after $sometimestamp,
taking into account leap years, changes of year, I think daylight savings
(although I'm not certain of that), etc. Really, if you want to do any sort
of time math that's not second-based, strtotime() will take most of the hard
work off your hands. It's simply amazing.
On Sunday 17 June 2007, Keith Spiller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> RE: Previous and Next Month and Year
>
> This is my code:
>
> $next_month = date('F Y', time()+$month);
> $prev_month = date('F Y', time()-$month);
>
> echo "$prev_month <br /> \n"; #Result "June 2007"
> echo "$next_month <br /> \n"; #Result "June 2007"
>
> What I am trying to do is get the month and year
> based upon a + or - $month value.
>
> The variable $month being "6" for the month of June of
> the present year of 2007.
>
> For example ($month -7) would be December 2006,
> and ($month +7) would be January 2006.
>
> Please help... Thank you.
>
> Keith
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