Creating a bi-weekly calendar

[christo16]

Hello all,

I am creating a timesheet application that will display a date such as Jan 1st 2007 to Jan 15th 2007.  How do i code this in php to automatically to display each two week period (from saturday to saturday) based on what day it is?  Such as today is the 31st so if the end of the pay period was on Friday Feb 2nd, the page would display Jan 19th to Feb 2nd.

Thank you!

 

 

[dgiberson]

the way i did this was using an unixtimstamp and then adding to it...

 

$today = time();

// 1209600 = # of seconds in a two week period

$twoweeks_date = $today + 1209600;

 

this will give you the date range you need, there are other ways to do this.... and it all depends on how you want to display your calendar, but at least this way you have your start & ending points

 

btw, you will see posts that this method doesn't totally account for daylight savings, blah blah blah... which is true. however most of the time this will be sufficient.

[christo16]

Hey thanks that looks pretty good, but perhaps is there a way to do it in non unix timestamp or is there an easy way to convert it to english time?  This is how i am displaying the calendar

I will probably put above the calendar "Week Jan 1st- Jan 15th"

[dgiberson]

use $print_date = strftime('%Y-%m-%d', $today)

[chronister]

$timestamp=1169359200;

 

echo date("m/d/y", $timestamp)

 

 

will give you  01/21/07

 

The date function is pretty easy to use, and the unix timestamp is one of my favs to store date time and such.

[dgiberson]

i have to echo chronister's comments, using unixtimestamps to do the work makes it much much easier to work with dates and times