strtowrongtime issue

[BoarderLine]

PHP 5.3.3

 

I am using this to get a date 6 months from:-

 

$today=date("Y-m-d");
$newdate=strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($today)) . " +6 months");

 

However I am getting the output format:-

 

1299495600 (or similar)

 

The strange thing is this did work with PHP4.

 

Does anyone know why???????????

 

Cheers

[rwwd]

Hi there,

$newdate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+6 months"));

 

That will achieve what you are after, I use a very similar method when setting the time for different time zones, thought there are simpler ways...

 

Cheers,

Rw

[BoarderLine]

Thanks rwwd,

 

I should have explained a little more about the problem.  In the example given I am using $today=date("Y-m-d") however in my code the $today variable can be substituted for any date not just today.  So really what I am needing is the strtotime() function to generate +6 months from a dynamic date.

[rwwd]

Strtotime() only returns int:http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php so in the context of your example your output would be: 1299495600 (or similar)

 

what you would need then is this:-

 

$today = "Y-m-d";
echo $newdate = date($today, strtotime("+6 months"));

 

Hope that makes sense, Ideally though strtotime is used inside the date() function as the second parameter, purely because it returns an int that the date() function can interpret..

 

Cheers,

Rw

[BoarderLine]

hmmmm that just returned the date variable without adding the 6 months....... however thanks I appreciate the assist.  I must figure another way 

[rwwd]

Works fine for me, locally an server...

 

No problem.

 

Cheers,

Rw