Darren_Stanley

I have modified the IFELSE statement in order to debug to return $Line if <6. with an un-expected outcome. elseif($line<getNewLine()) { $weeks=($line+$noOfLines-getNewLine()); $modifier=$weeks.' weeks'; $rotaDate->modify($modifier); return $line;//$rotaDate ->format("jS F Y"); } Only the first line gets the $line number from the "if else" statement. The remaining lines less than 6, get the modified $rotaDate, each time this function is called.

Unfortunately, this made no difference. I still have this problem.

I have a working IF statement, but then when I add a 'ELSE IF' to this this 'overwrites' my IF. I will try to explain more here. For the purpose of this example, getNewLine() returns 6. $noOfLines = 58. $rotaDate = 5th Jan 2014 $line = from 1 to 58. My initial IF statement gives correct output (adding 1 week to each line):- //This function determines and inserts the custom column data. function customData($line){ global $rotaDate,$noOfLines; if($line >= getNewLine()){ $weeks=($line-getNewLine()); $modifier=$weeks.' weeks'; $rotaDate->modify($modifier); return $rotaDate ->format("jS F Y"); } 1 2 3 4 5 6 05-Jan-14 7 12-Jan-14 8 19-Jan-14 9 26-Jan-14 10 02-Feb-14 ... ... ... ... 56 21-Dec-14 57 28-Dec-14 58 04-Jan-15 So far, So good.. But now, I need to continue from 4-Jan line 58, back up to line 1, 1week later (11-Jan) down to line 5 of which would be 8th Feb. i.e. all lines Less than getNewLine() // which is 6 To do this I have added ELSE IF:- /* else if($line<getNewLine()) { $weeks=($line+$noOfLines-getNewLine()); $modifier=$weeks.' weeks'; $rotaDate->modify($modifier); return $rotaDate ->format("jS F Y"); } */ This the outputs from line 1 to line 5 correctly, But it continues to overwrite the dates down to line 58. It needs to stop at line 6. 1 11-Jan-15 2 18-Jan-15 3 25-Jan-15 4 01-Feb-15 5 08-Feb-15 6 15-Feb-15 7 22-Feb-15 8 01-Mar-15 9 08-Mar-15 10 15-Mar-15 11 22-Mar-15 ... ... ... ... down to line 58... Any ideas why this is happening and how I may stop this please?

Kicken, Perfectly explained. My Problem solved.. Thanks Millions.

OK, the Highlight didn't work in code. But the line in question, if you haven't already guessed. $rotaDate= new DateTime(); //returns a DateTime object

HI, thanks for reading. Im am VERY NEW at PHP and coding, please don't get confused with the simplicity of my request.(maybe its just a syntax issue), but im not sure. First, I have set a variable: $rotaDate = date('5/1/14'); Then I have made a function. //This function determines and inserts the custom column data. function customData($line){ if($line==getNewLine()) { $rotaDate= new DateTime(); //returns a DateTime object return $rotaDate->format("jS F Y"); } else if($line>getNewLine()){ $weeks=($line-getNewLine()); $modifier=$weeks.' weeks'; $rotaDate = new DateTime(); //returns a DateTime object $rotaDate->modify($modifier); return $rotaDate ->format("jS F Y"); } } The line highlighted in RED, sets $rotaDate to Todays date as an object, but i don't want that. I need it to be an object date of MY $rotaDate = date('5/1/14') VARIABLE. The above code works, but outputs TODAYS DATE(as you would expect). any modification I make to this code creates an "not a date object" error. I think what I am trying to do is make my VARIABLE($rotaDate) an OBJECT. hope you can understand what Im trying to do. Thanks in advance.