Re: Brilliance requested - calculating a date next month [message #174457 is a reply to message #174454] |
Sun, 12 June 2011 20:43 |
bill
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On 6/12/2011 3:49 PM, Mathieu Maes wrote:
> On 12 jun, 21:05, bill<nob...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> I am quietly banging my head on the wall. In concept it seems so
>> simple:
>>
>> I need to calculate the date of an appointment next month.
>> but:
>> it needs to be on the same day of the month,
>> eg: from the 2nd Tuesday of this month to the 2nd Tuesday of
>> next month.
>>
>> obviously this will not work the 5th week of any month, so we can
>> limit it to the first 4 weeks of the "from" month (but this is
>> not the same as the first 28 days- for example January of this
>> year starts on a Saturday so the first "week" is only Jan 1. The
>> 2nd "week" is Jan 2..8, the third "week" is Jan 9..15).
>>
>> I was hoping that php would have a nifty dateTime function to do
>> this, but I can't find one: I checked out dateInterval and the
>> various date functions.
>>
>> Right now I am so brain locked that I can't even figure out how
>> to calculate which week of the month is the first date.
>>
>> Any suggestions, links, kind words would be appreciated.
>> bill
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> This should do the trick:
> <?php
> // Get the day, month and year in seperate variables
> $day = date("d");
> $month = date("m");
> $year = date("Y");
>
> if ($day> 28)
> {
> // What happens if the current date is 29, 30 or 31? I will assume
> the following:
> $day = 28;
> }
> // Increase the month by 1
> $month++;
>
> if ($month==13)
> { // December -> January next year
> $month = 1;
> $year++;
> }
>
> echo "Date in the future is " . $day . "-" . $month . "-" . $year;
> ?>
Thanks Mathieu,
However it seems that this will give me the same date in the next
month, not the same day in the same week.
I think the other way does work though.
Let me play with it.
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