working with date

[jakebur01]

I want to use the date(Y-M-D) function to store a modified  date and an expiration date. How could I create an expiration date based on todays date. Example. todays date + 12 months = expiration. Also how could I display how many days it is until the expiration date?

[drisate]

Use mktime()

 

$tomorrow  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")+1, date("Y"));

$lastmonth = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")-1, date("d"),  date("Y"));

$nextyear  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"),  date("d"),  date("Y")+1);

[Barand]

If the dates are being stored in a MySQL database you can use its inbuilt date functions

 

... SET expiry = CURDATE() + INTERVAL 12 MONTH

 

SELECT DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), expiry) as days_to_expiry FROM tablename

[drisate]

Yeah nice hehe