[SOLVED] Dates

[sseeley]

I have some dates but when I try to add an extra day to a date it does not process correcly.  The code I have is

<?php
$startDate = "01-06-2009";
echo $startDate;
echo "<br/>";
$finishDate = "30-06-2009";
echo $finishDate;
echo "<br/>";
$startDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime("$startDate +$i Day"));
echo $startDate;
echo "<br/>";
$finishDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime("$finishDate +$i Day"));
echo $finishDate;
echo "<br/>";
?>

 

However this results in the following responce?

 

01-06-2009

30-06-2009

01-12-2006

01-12-2035

 

Many thanks in advance for any help...

[cunoodle2]

What does this yield?

 

<?php

echo "The value of i is: ".$i."</br>\n";

?>

[Maq]

Works fine for me, tried $i=1; and $i=5.

 

How are you initializing $i?

[sseeley]

$i=1;

 

The value of i is: 1

 

Many thanks

[Maq]

So if you hard code that value in, you still get incorrect dates?  Try this and tell me what you get.

 

$i=1;
$startDate = "01-06-2009";
echo $startDate;
echo "
";
$finishDate = "30-06-2009";
echo $finishDate;
echo "
";
$startDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime("$startDate +$i Day"));
echo $startDate;
echo "
";
$finishDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime("$finishDate +$i Day"));
echo $finishDate;
echo "
";
?>

 

My output:

 

01-06-2009

30-06-2009

02-06-2009

01-07-2009

[kenrbnsn]

You are using the European method of entering dates (dd-mm-yyyy), the strtotime function only recognizes the American method (mm-dd-yyyy) or (yyyy-mm-dd). Use one of those formats and your problems should go away.

 

Ken