Adding x amount of days to a specific date?

[nathanpacker]

I have looked everywhere, I've figured out how to add x amount of days to the current date, or take away x amount of days from the current date. But let's say I have a date stored in my database as "0000-00-00", that is not the current date. How can I take that date and add a certain number of days to it?

I'm using php with a mysql database. I did find one sql command that works when I run it in the sql command line, but not on php. It's SELECT DATE_ADD('$mydate', INTERVAL 14 DAY) Of course in the command line I put an actual date in the $mydate portion. But in php, it looks like this: $next_date=mysql_query("SELECT DATE_ADD('$mydate', INTERVAL 14 DAY)"); $mydate is just a date in the form 0000-00-00 pulled from somewhere else in my database. But it keeps spitting out "Resource id #8."

What's a simple way to add some days to a given date?

[iamthwee]

>0000-00-00

This is meaningless. At least say something like: yyyy-mm-dd

[nathanpacker]

Not exactly meaningless, that's the format you have to put in the mysql table to tell it what format you want. Ok, my date format is yyyy-mm-dd.

[php_daemon]

>$mydate is just a date in the form 0000-00-00 pulled from somewhere else in my database. But it keeps spitting out "Resource id #8."

That means $mydate is not what you expect. It's probably the result of mysql_query(). Use mysql_fetch_array() or mysql_result() to get the value.

[fatihpiristine]

remember the code that i gave to increase numbers by one... change to datediff and it will work :)

$AddOneDay = " mycolumn BETWEEN date_format(Now() + INTERVAL 1 DAY,'%e/%c/%Y - %H:%i:%s') AND date_format(Now(),'%e/%c/%Y - %H:%i:%s') ";

how many days you want, change that 1 to any number... :)

[ryan_vietnow]

I have looked everywhere, I've figured out how to add x amount of days to the current date, or take away x amount of days from the current date. But let's say I have a date stored in my database as "0000-00-00", that is not the current date. How can I take that date and add a certain number of days to it?

I'm using php with a mysql database. I did find one sql command that works when I run it in the sql command line, but not on php. It's SELECT DATE_ADD('$mydate', INTERVAL 14 DAY) Of course in the command line I put an actual date in the $mydate portion. But in php, it looks like this: $next_date=mysql_query("SELECT DATE_ADD('$mydate', INTERVAL 14 DAY)"); $mydate is just a date in the form 0000-00-00 pulled from somewhere else in my database. But it keeps spitting out "Resource id #8."

What's a simple way to add some days to a given date?

you must use mysql_result to get the date.

$query="SELECT DATE_ADD('$mydate', INTERVAL 14 DAY)";
$result=mysql_query($query)

$next_date=mysql_result($result,0,"*date field on your table");

[nathanpacker]

Thanks guys, that got it working right.

[AOlevel1]

<?php
$num_days = 20;
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, m, d, yyyy)+$num_days*60*60*24);
?>

The above is a purely php way of finding the number of days from a certain date. In the date, notice I put m and d and NOT mm and dd. For mktime use 8, not 08 or you will get the wrong date. This is my first post on daniweb, hope everything views OK.

[fatihpiristine]

even sql can do this but some ppl hate it you know.

[ripraw]

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