random date

[eranwein]

is there any function that returns a random date between two givven dates?

[redbullmarky]

work out a random date between start of year and today

[code]

function getrandomdate($date1, $date2, $format = "Y-m-d")
{
   $randomdate = rand(strtotime($date1), strtotime($date2));
   return date($format, $randomdate);
}

// mysql date format, although strtotime works on many date formats.
$firstdate = "2006-01-01";
$lastdate = "2006-03-14";


echo "random date is ".getrandomdate($firstdate, $lastdate);
[/code]

give that a go. to get the date back in a different format, just add a third parameter to the call to 'getrandomdate' function, else it'll come back in mysql format.

Cheers
Mark

[eranwein]

thanks. works great.

to all the others who reads it, notice that there is a missing $ on date2.

thanks again, eran

[redbullmarky]

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thanks. works great.

to all the others who reads it, notice that there is a missing $ on date2.

thanks again, eran
[/quote]

oops, my bad. i changed it now

Cheers
Mark