How to add a week onto a date...

[lidds]

What I want to be able to do is add 1 week onto an existing date e.g.

[code]
$date = "1978-10-15";
// here add code to add 1 week onto the above date
[/code]

The date format I am using is "Y-m-d" and the date could be any stored date i.e. not the current date

Can anyone help.....

Thanks in advance

Simon

[kenrbnsn]

There are a number of different ways to do this, here are two:[list][*]Use the strtotime() function:
[code]<?php
$date = "1978-10-15";
$newdate = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date . ' + 1 week'));
echo $newdate;
?>[/code][*]Convert the date to the number of seconds since 1970-1-1 and add the number of seconds in a week (604,800)
[code]<?php
$date_secs = strtotime("1978-10-15");
$new_date = date_secs + 604800;
echo date('Y-m-d',$new_date);
?>[/code][/list]The above will only work with dates since 1-1-1970 in most cases.

Ken