How to add x number of days to a date

And return a valid date

[surfgatinho]

Hi,
I have been scratching my head over this one. I want to add a number of days to a date and end up with a date.

The only way I've thought of doing this so far is converting to a time stamp, adding the days (in milliseconds) and then converting back.
I'm sure there must be an easier way!

Suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

[dreamcatcher]

Hi,

You might want to check out the strtotime() [uk.php.net] function. It may be what you are looking for.

dc

[brucec]

Also use the MKTIME function where you can do easy math through the epoch values. I use Epoch values to calculate the difference of days and they never fail.

To get more information on the epoch date math, search for the PHP MKTIME function in google and you will see good explanations of them.

It is very easy to use and usually can be done in 2 or 3 lines of PHP code.

[surfgatinho]

Thanks for the help. Here's what I did:

$startDate = mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day,$year);
$finishDate = $startDate + ($nights * 24 * 60 * 60);
$finishDate = date("Y-m-d",$finishDate);
$startDate = date("Y-m-d",$startDate);

Seems to work