[uraknai]

Hi,

the following for loop will give the date for the next few weeks from todays date.

for ( $counter = 0; $counter < $recurrent; $counter += 1) 
{
     $day = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+ $counter weeks"));
}

But I need it to give the date for the next few weeks from any given date. I've tried:

for ( $counter = 0; $counter < $recurrent; $counter += 1) 
{
      $date = $_POST['date']
     $day = date('$date', strtotime("+ $counter weeks"));
}

where $date is a date variable in the form yyyy-mm-dd but this doesn't seem to work.

Could someone give me a hand.

Cheers

[georgev]

This should help

[healdem]

...or you could just add the relevant number of seconds to the desired date variable

so for one week thats 60 * 60 * 24 * 7. ie seconds * minutes * hours * days

[aschk]

The following calculates the epoch time each loop and adds the number of days onto it. Thankfully mktime works with date addition, so (when counter = 4) day 19 + (7*4) = 47, is added on to the time.

<?php
$recurrent = 4;
for ( $counter = 0; $counter < $recurrent; $counter += 1) 
{
    date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
    $day = mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d')+(7*$counter),date('Y'));
    echo date('Y-m-d',$day)."<br>";
}
?>

[aschk]

Basically you need to separate out your variables.

$date = explode('-',$_POST['date']);
$day = $date[2];
$month = $date[1];
$year = $date[0];

$recurrent = 4;
for ( $counter = 0; $counter < $recurrent; $counter += 1) 
{
    date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
    echo date('Y-m-d',mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day+(7*$counter),$year));
    echo "<br/>";
}

[aschk]

Just to clarify for you why you second attempt wasnt working :

Assuming that the passed variable $_POST['date'] is in the right format (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd).
$date = $_POST['date'];

You were passing it to date
date($date,....))

However the first parameter of the date function is the definition of what you want date to return e.g. 'D F y : O' , so giving it '12-05-2005' is moot because it won't understand that format. If you are uncertain about using the date function see the manual (http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php).