Getting the Year...trouble !! pls Help 1

[Forri]

Hi all

i'm using the folwowing:

$DATE_CURRENT = date("n,d,Y"

$TEMP_DAY = date("d", mktime(0,0,0,$DATE_CURRENT));
$TEMP_MONTH= date("n", mktime(0,0,0,$DATE_CURRENT));
$TEMP_YEAR = date("Y", mktime(0,0,0,$DATE_CURRENT));

Where the Year, Month, day can vary as i will change them often! The Month and day are stored perfectly but the Year doesn't! it stays 2004!!! what's wrong

pls somebody help!

Thanks
Nick

 

[sleipnir214]

I am frankly suprised that you are getting correct results for any part of that.

mktime() requires the input of discrete date parts. You cannot substitute a comma-delimited string for a set of discrete inputs.

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[Forri]

ok! so how would you go about it! am didn't understand much the discrete part!

Thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

mktime() requires that you pass to it the following as input parameters:[ul][li]a seconds number[/li][li]a minutes number[/li][li]an hours number[/li][li]a day of the month number[/li][li]a month of the year number[/li][li]a year number[/li][/ul]

All of these numbers must be single values. You cannot substitute a string with some commas and numbers in it for three of the input parameters. You can omit values, in which case mktime() fills in what you've left out using the current date's values. And this is what is happening in your code. You're passing a seconds number, a minutes number, an hours number and a string, so mktime() is filling in the missing parameters with default values.


I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do or what you're going to do with the numbers.

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[Forri]

oh!! I Think your perfectly right! i'll try! get back to you!
Thanks for now!

 

[Forri]

So how can i retrieve the month, day and year of a date...my DAte!!

Thanks again

 

[roycrom]

Hi Forri,

I guess you could do this:

$CURRENTDAY = date("d");
$CURRENTMONTH = date("n");
$CURRENTYEAR = date("Y");

$TEMP_DAY = date("d", mktime(0,0,0, $CURRENTMONTH, $CURRENTDAY, $CURRENTDAY ));
$TEMP_MONTH= date("n", mktime(0,0,0, $CURRENTMONTH, $CURRENTDAY, $CURRENTDAY));
$TEMP_YEAR = date("Y", mktime(0,0,0, $CURRENTMONTH, $CURRENTDAY, $CURRENTDAY));

This should give you what you need.

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[sleipnir214]

I would just use getdate() and fetch all the parts at once:

<?php
$my_date = '2004-03-02 11:46:00';

$date_array = getdate(strtotime($my_date));

print '<pre>';
print_r ($date_array);
?>

Returns:

Array
(
    [seconds] => 0
    [minutes] => 46
    [hours] => 11
    [mday] => 2
    [wday] => 2
    [mon] => 3
    [year] => 2004
    [yday] => 61
    [weekday] => Tuesday
    [month] => March
    [0] => 1078249560
)

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