unix timestamp

[StirCrazy]

Hi folks,

just a quick question ~

what's the php code to echo exactly 9 months (for point of echo) in a Unix timestamp format?


Thanks,
S.C>

[AndyB]

Exactly nine months is a different number of seconds depending on the start and finish month, as months have different numbers of days.

Do you want nine months from today's date into the future ... or what?

[StirCrazy]

good point  :D ~ ok, it's to work out pregnancy times, so 280 days  :)

S.C>

[doni49]

The following is copied from www.php.net/time:
[code]
<?php
$nextWeek = time() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60);
                  // 7 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60secs
echo 'Now:      '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";
echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', $nextWeek) ."\n";
?>
[/code]
So the following should give you 280 days from now:
[code]
<?php
$days280 = time() + (280 * 24 * 60 * 60);
                  // 280 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60secs
echo 'Now:      '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";
echo '<br>280 Days: '. date('Y-m-d', $days280) ."\n";
?>
[/code]

I just ran that code and this is what my browser displayed:
[quote]
Now: 2006-11-11
280 Days: 2007-08-18
[/quote]

[StirCrazy]

Thanks Don. What would I need to do to that code to make it into the timestamp?


S.C>

[Nicklas]

280 days into the future from now
[code]<?php

echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+280 days"));

?>[/code]


add 280 days to a given date, ex starting from 2006-11-01 (good for countdowns etc)
[code]<?php

echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("2006-11-01 +280 days"));

?>[/code]



To get the time in pure unixtime, just remove the surrounding date() function.

ex:
[code]<?php

echo strtotime("+280 days");

?>[/code]

Or
[code]<?php

echo strtotime("2006-11-01 +280 days");

?>[/code]

[StirCrazy]

thanks  ;D

one more question.

$decimal = "8571428571";
$rdays = $decimal / "14.285714285";
$days = $rdays{0};

what am i doing wrong?
if I echo $days the answer should be 6... but it won't echo the first number?
($decimal changes but given an example).


any ideas?




or failing that, i need a function to convert 74304000 style timecodes into whole weeks and remaining days.

[doni49]

I had the same problem when I tested it.  It seems that when the variable is a numeric value, it's not allowing you me to retrieve individual digits.  However whenever I concatenated a string onto the front it worked.

$decimal = "8571428571";
$rdays = $decimal / "14.285714285";
$rdays = "_" . $rdays;        //    <--add string to front.
echo $rdays[1];  //    <--grab SECOND character

[Nicklas]

to convert it back to a string, all you have to do, is something like this:

[code=php:0]$decimal = "8571428571";
$rdays = '' . $decimal / "14.285714285";
echo $rdays[0]; // print first char: 6[/code]

[doni49]

Nicklas,

I did that when I was testing his code.  NOTHING was sent to the browswer--not even an error message.

But the code that I posted DID work.

EDIT:  I don't know how to explain this one, but I put the following in a php file (all by itself) and uploaded it.  When I ran it, it worked.  I could swear that I had the same thing yesterday (looks the same to me).
[code]
<?php
$decimal = "8571428571";
$rdays = '' . $decimal / "14.285714285";
echo "<br />Line1<br>";
echo $rdays[0];
echo "<br />Line2<br>";
?>
[/code]

This is what my browser shows:
[quote]
Line1
6
Line2
[/quote]