redarrow Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 edit:change any redarrow to john or it will be wrong ok.I have been leaning the date conversion with strtotime and floor, also i have lern to use substr to limit the charecters, and i have been learning wordwrap to add a brake from the database.heres my example for the beginers ok. I hope this helps any beginer good luck.<?//start//day conversion.$date1="10-10-2006";$date2="10-11-2006";$start=strtotime($date1);$end=strtotime($date2);$sum=$end-$start;$result1=floor($sum/86400);//endecho" this is a day conversion $result1 <br>";//start// see words to desire lenth.$text="my name is redarrow and i love php";$result2=substr($text,0,16);//endecho " this is a letter deduction $result2<br>";// start.$word="my name is redarrow and i love php";$result3=wordwrap($word,16,"<br>",1);// end.echo " this is a sentence with a brake $result3 <br> ";?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Feel free to explain what the functions and their parameters do. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted July 26, 2006 Author Share Posted July 26, 2006 ok heres goes a brake downmy spelling is bad but i tried to exsplain good luck all.<?//start//day conversion.//This is the first date.$date1="10-10-2006";//This is the scound date.$date2="10-11-2006";// strtotime converts the $date1 to a timestamp varable $start.$start=strtotime($date1);// strtotime converts the $date2 to a timestamp varable $end.$end=strtotime($date2);//varable $sum was set to take $end varable from $start varable$sum=$end-$start;// $result1 is set to floor the seconds from $sum varable there are 86400 secons in a day.$result1=floor($sum/86400);//end// echo the result from the $result1 varable the echo result is 31 days from the conversion of floor.echo" this is a day conversion $result1 <br>";//start// see words to desire lenth.// set the varable $text to a sentence the sentence is 30 charecters long.$text="my name is john and i love php";// set $result2 varable to substr to show the number of charecters to show on a page 0 means start from and 16 is the number of charecter to see echoed out$result2=substr($text,0,16);//end// echo out the $result2 the echo result is //my name is john substr is told only to show the first 16 charecters.echo " this is a letter deduction $result2<br>";// start.// set a varable $word what has 30 charecters $word="my name is john and i love php";// set varable $result3 to wordwrap to have a brake for a new line at charecter 16 "<br>" 1 is defult. $result3=wordwrap($word,16,"<br>",1);// end.// echo out the $result3 you get //my name is john//i love phpecho " this is a sentence with a brake $result3 <br> ";?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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