Dates

[monkeytooth]

Ok, don't know if this is simple or not, im not to familiar with javascript as of yet. But I need to define to variables. One being the current year. The other being the current year minus 50. then I need to print them onto the page in various locations. Anyone able to help me with that right quick?

[Adam]

Is there a specific reason you need JS for this? You could generate the dates with PHP and use that to 'print them in various locations'?

 

$thisyear = date("Y");
$yearsago = date("Y", strtotime("- 50 years"));

 

If you really need to use JS you could even print the dates into the JS code..?

[monkeytooth]

I would love very much to do it in PHP however php vars don't transcribe to JavaScript vars and vise verse as far as I know. And what I wanting to do is have a date picker function that automatically adjusts the years within a certain range, so I don't have to go back in there and do it manually every so often.

 

If it were so easy I would have been very happy :-D

[rajivgonsalves]

  <script type="text/javascript">
        date = new Date();
        var curr_year = date.getYear();
        var prev_year = curr_year - 50;
  </script>

[monkeytooth]

See, now by the examples I was going over via google search.. that just seemed like it would have been harder than that, thank you