On Monday 18 June 2007, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:57 -0400, Ron Piggott wrote:
> > If
> >
> > $expiry_date = "2007-10-17";
> >
> > How do I add 7 days to this? I know the strtotime("+7 days"); command,
> > but don't know how to make it work with a date that isn't today.
>
> You would do:
>
> strtotime( '+7 days', $time );
>
> The $time is a unix timestamp... so you'll need to convert $expiry_date
> to a unix timestamp. You can take a look at the mktime() function for
> more information.
Just be meta about it.
strtotime('+7 days', strtotime($expiry_date));
Ta da! :-)
(Note: strtotime() is probably not the fastest to execute way of doing it, but
it's the fastest to write. Choose wisely.)
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