Dates 10 days in advance

[pauldonnelly23]

Hi,

Im hoping someone can help. I am trying to get the dates from the current day and 10 days in advance.

 

Example:

 

Monday 15th Feb 2010

Tuesday 16th Feb 2010

Wednesday 17th Feb 2010

Thursday 18th Feb 2010....And so on up to 10 days.

 

As each day pasts it would get rid of the previous day from the list.

 

I hope you understand what I am trying to do and I hope you can help.

 

Kind Regards,

Paul

[salathe]

Are you using PHP 5.3? If so:

 

$today    = new DateTime;
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
$period   = new DatePeriod($today, $interval, 10);

foreach ($period as $datetime) {
echo $datetime->format('l jS M Y') . PHP_EOL;
}

 

If you're not so lucky as to to be able to use PHP 5.3 right now, do let us know what is available for you.

[pauldonnelly23]

Thanks for your prompt reply Salathe.

My hosting is setup as PHP5 (Running as an Apache Module).

Unfortunately the code below is not showing anything.

 

<?php
$today    = new DateTime;
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
$period   = new DatePeriod($today, $interval, 10);

foreach ($period as $datetime) {
echo $datetime->format('l jS M Y') . PHP_EOL;
}
?>

 

Can you help with this?

 

Many Thanks,

Paul

[harristweed]

<?php
  $date_today=date("l jS M Y");
  echo $date_today."<br />\n";
  $day_1 = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+1,   date("Y"));
  $day1=date("l jS M Y",$day_1);
  echo $day1."<br />\n";
  $day_2 = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+2,   date("Y"));
  $day2=date("l jS M Y",$day_2);
  echo $day2."<br />\n";
  echo"....<br />\n";
  $day_9 = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+9,   date("Y"));
  $day9=date("l jS M Y",$day_9);
  echo $day9."<br />\n";
?>

[salathe]

Unfortunately the code below is not showing anything.

 

In that case, the chances are that you're running some version of PHP 5.2 so the DatePeriod/Interval classes will not be available. The fact that nothing at all is shown means that you should probably turn on error reporting (and displaying; search the forums if you're not sure how to do that) since if you do that, PHP will kindly tell you that those classes are not available.

 

Can you help with this?

 

Of course. harristweed's code above should work for you, or you can use something like the code below which uses a for loop to save typing the same thing 10 times, strtotime to move the date forward by some days and date to print a nice representation of each date.

 

for ($i = 0; $i <= 10; $i++) {
$date = strtotime("+$i days");
echo date("l jS M Y", $date) . PHP_EOL;
}

[pauldonnelly23]

Salathe, thanks for the explanation it was really helpful.

Also that snippet of code is exactly what I needed, thanks again.

 

Kind regards,

Paul

[pauldonnelly23]

salathe, on another note can you explain what PHP_EOL does?

[salathe]

PHP_EOL is a constant which contains the line-ending character(s) suitable for your server. For example, for a server running on windows it contains the carriage return and newline characters (\r\n) while for a linux box it will contain just the newline character (\n). See some other constants.  It added nothing critical to the example code other than placing a line break between each of the dates.

 

 

[pauldonnelly23]

I see, thats great to know. Thanks for that and for your help Salathe.

 

Regards,

Paul