Dates headache :-(

[herghost]

Hi all,

 

I am having bit of a headache in trying to achieve what I want!

 

Basically I have a date coming into the script as this format:

 

Tue May 24 18:51:38 +0000 2011

 

These are the steps I wish to do an not quite sure how!

 

1. Make date read: May 24 2011

2. Add 6 Months to date and store as new variable

 

For part 2 I am guessing I can do something like:

 

<?php
$futuredate = strtotime('+6 months', $date)
?>;

 

But part one is stumping me!

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

[herghost]

Got it!

echo $joined;
echo '<br>';
$date = strtotime($joined);
echo date('jS F Y', $date);
echo '<br>';
$date = strtotime('+6 months', $date);
echo date('jS F Y', $date);

 

[Maq]

You have to use a combination of date and strtotime:

ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$s = strtotime("Tue May 24 18:51:38 +0000 2011");
$today =  date('F d Y', $s);
$future =  date('F d Y', (strtotime('+6 month', $s)));
echo "today->$today 
\n future-> $future";

?>

[herghost]

Thanks, i guess that is the same way of achieving the same thing?

 

How would I calculate the number of days between the two? I have tried

 

$aDays = floor(abs($readydate - $njoined) / 86400);

 

but it returns 0?