Date functions...adding 24hs to an already generated date and such, need help.

[nightkarnation]

Hello Guys!

Sorry about the Subject, didn't know how to explain it in few words...

So here's the deal...

 

$last_free_date = "Mon Jun 25 20:12:25 GMT-0300 2012"
$server_current_time = date('D M j H:i:s \G\M\TO Y'); //will have the same format as the $last_free_date variable
//Now here is what I need to do:
//$last_format_date = $last_free_date + 24hs

 

Any ideas?? I need to add $last_free_date + 24hs to the $last_format_date variable...

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers!

[jcanker]

There's a couple of ways to do it---100 ways to skin a cat, right?

 

You can always use the UNIXtime and just do the math to add:

1 minute                                 = 60 seconds

1 hour     = 60min*60sec = 3600 seconds

1 day = 24*60min*60 sec = 86400 seconds

1 Week      =7*24*60*60 = 604800 seconds

But the caveat to that is unless you do a little work to it first, the UNIXdate is a TIMESTAMP, so it returns the current time, so the math will be from the current time, not 00:00 of the date.

 

The other option, and one that is becoming more popular, is to use the PHP date/time object (which also has procedural style capabilites).  This is newer, so if you're running on 4.x you'll have to upgrade to 5.x.

 

Object oriented style:

<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
$date->add(new DateInterval('P10D'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";
?> 

Procedural style:

<?php
$date = date_create('2000-01-01');
date_add($date, date_interval_create_from_date_string('10 days'));
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d');
?> 

Both result in the same output

 

PHP manual page:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.add.php

[nightkarnation]

Hello, first of all thanks for the reply!

Still not working for me...

Isn't there a simple solution? Sorry I am not so good writing php...

 

Something similiar to this (but with some working function?):

 

$last_format_date = $last_free_date + 24hs

[jcanker]

assuming you have your date already formated 'Y-m-d' in a variable (here it will be $date)

 

$newDate = date_add($date, date_interval_create_from_date_string('1 day'));

 

From there you have the new date to reformat, output, do what you please

 

There are lots of examples on ways to use date_add at the php manual page for it:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-add.php

[nightkarnation]

Jcanker thanks a lot again!

I get the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function date_add()

I have php version: 5.2.2 (locally running on wamp)

 

Any ideas?

[nightkarnation]

Nevermind!

I figured it out!

 

$Countdown_Secs = '86400';
$server_time_plus= date('D M j H:i:s \G\M\TO Y',strtotime('+'. $Countdown_Secs . 'seconds'));
echo $server_time_plus;

[Barand]

I thought your original problem was to add 24hrs to

 

 

$last_free_date = "Mon Jun 25 20:12:25 GMT-0300 2012"