Date Manipulation

[Jaelan]

Hey guys,
Perhaps my mind is just in sleep mode because it's monday, or perhaps I haven't worked with the date abilities of php before (or both).

I am trying to echo out the dates of the first and last of the week. Example:

Last week was 1-10-2005 to 1-16-2005

I will always be doing the week before the current week. So, is there a function that I can seed with the current date, and subtract 7 days? If not, does anyone have a way to do this, taking into account that the previous days could be in the previous months?

Any help is appreciated,
Jaelan

[MstrBob]

<?PHP
echo(date('l, F j, Y', (time()-604800)));
?>


Time gives us the amount of seconds since the UNIX epoch. There are 604,800 seconds in a week. The date function takes a UNIX timestamp as a parameter, so we subtract 608,800 seconds from now and get exactly one week from now.

[Jaelan]

you are awesome!!!

btw, have you done that before, or did you work out how many seconds were in a week?

hehe, thanks again,
Jaelan

[MstrBob]

Glad it worked. After awhile, one gathers a certain amount of useless information. But it's easily worked out.

[Jaelan]

It is at that. Oh well, anyway, again, it worked greats and thanks...back to work for me

[NogDog]

Originally posted by MstrBob
Glad it worked. After awhile, one gathers a certain amount of useless information. But it's easily worked out.
Or you do what I do:

date('l, F j, Y', (time() - (60*60*24*7) ))

:)

[MstrBob]

Originally posted by NogDog
Or you do what I do:

date('l, F j, Y', (time() - (60*60*24*7) ))

:)

Sure... if you're lazy! :p j/k

[Jaelan]

which I know I am!

there's no shame here...