Re: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-09 Thread Peter J. Schoenster
On 7 Feb 2002, at 23:21, Sander Peters wrote: Hello, This is my problem: $today = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d),date(Y))); $last_week = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d)-7,date(Y))); echo ($today - $last_week); The result is a number like 8876 (20020107-20011231 =

Re: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-08 Thread Henning Sprang
Sander Peters wrote: Hello, This is my problem: $today = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d),date(Y))); $last_week = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d)-7,date(Y))); echo ($today - $last_week); The result is a number like 8876 (20020107-20011231 = 8876) which is completely

RE: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-07 Thread Martin Towell
You'll need to use Julian format (I think that the name for it) which is DDD - is the year and DDD is the number of days into the year. I'm unsure as to how to do this in PHP so you'll need to do some searching - unless someone knows... Would be nice to know exactly how to do it in case

RE: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-07 Thread Boget, Chris
$today = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d),date(Y))); $last_week = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d)-7,date(Y))); echo ($today - $last_week); The result is a number like 8876 (20020107-20011231 = 8876) But in date thinking it should be 7! No, that's the difference in time

Re: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-07 Thread Steve Cayford
Well, I'll chime in as well. I'd recommend doing all your calculations in timestamps in seconds, then convert the results into days, dates, or whatever. If you only have a date to start with then convert to a timestamp, do the calculation, and convert back. You could wrap it in a function

Re: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-07 Thread DL Neil
RE: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)Hi Sander, (and Chris, and Martin) $today = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d),date(Y))); $last_week = date(Ymd, mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d)-7,date(Y))); echo ($today - $last_week); The result is a number like 8876 (20020107-20011231 = 8876

RE: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)

2002-01-07 Thread Martin Towell
for my dates for that reason... Martin -Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:42 AM To: Boget, Chris; 'Sander Peters'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Martin Towell Subject: Re: [PHP] counting with dates (help!) RE: [PHP] counting with dates