Getting a Specific Date

[yarub]

What's the easiest way to figure out the time() for a date infront of you. Today is Monday. What's the easiest way to go about getting the time() for Saturday? An array or query or whatever that would work for any day of the week to figure out when Saturday is.

[marcusfaye87]

If today is monday may 5th

 

$time = time() + (5 * 24 * 60 * 60); // 5 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60sec
echo date ("d-m-Y", $time);

 

you add 5 days to the current time. does that help you?

 

 

[yarub]

Not really. =\  I want it to automatically find it for any day. So if it's Thursday, I want it to know that Saturday is only two days away. If it's Sunday, I want it to know that Saturday is six days away.

[marcusfaye87]

$day = date ('N'); // day in numbers 1 - 7

if ($day == 7)
{
$daysLeft = 7;
}
else
{
$daysLeft = 6 - $day;
}

$time = time() + ($daysLeft * 24 * 60 * 60); // x days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60sec
echo date ("d-m-Y", $time);

 

this should help then

[yarub]

Thank you! =D

[marcusfaye87]

sorry made an error, I changed it but...

 

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if ($day == 7)

{

$daysLeft = 7;

}

else

{

$daysLeft = 6 - $day;

}

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it was 8 before, but it doesn't take 8 days to get from sunday to saturday.

and I forgot to put a double "=" (I'm not good at programming on a forum. phpDesigner FTW!

 

Also, I would recommend you check php.net first before you post here, there's a lot there that can help you

The whole fun of programming lies in solving your problems (well that's what I think), not in just getting the code presented

[yarub]

Yeah- I tried looking there. I just didn't know how to phrase my search to get what I wanted.

[marcusfaye87]

just go to www.php.net and type "date" in the functions field, then hit return and be amazed?