That strtotime is a neat little command. With a bit more searching I found
that this works:
$expiry_date = strtotime("+21 days");
$expiry_date = date('Y-m-d', $expiry_date);
echo $expiry_date;
The computer couldn't cope with me doing it in just one line --- I got a
parse error.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Calvin Lough <calvinlough@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ron Piggott <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; PHP DB <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Expiry Date ($date function)
> The strtotime function should work the best.
>
> $add_twentyone = strtotime("+21 days");
>
> I dont know if that will work or not. I just found that method in the
> php doc and it looked interesting. Hopefully it will work for you.
>
> Calvin
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:41:04 -0500, Ron Piggott
> <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I figured out that the syntax below creates the date in the way it may
be
> > stored in a mySQL table:
> >
> > $todays_date=DATE('Y-m-d');
> >
> > Is there any way to add 21 days to this as an expiry date? For example
if
> > the date was March 20th 2005 21 days would be in April --- is there any
way
> > of dealing with this?
> >
> > Ron
> >
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