PHP - Getting Upcoming Date

Hi,

I have a job listing website which displays the closing date of applications using:

$expired_date

(This displays a date such as 31st December 2019)

I am trying to show a countdown/number of days left until the closing date.

I have put this together, but I can't get it to show the number of days.

                    <?php 
                    $expired_date = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_job_expires', true );
                    $hide_expiration = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_hide_expiration', true );
                    if(empty($hide_expiration )) {
                        if(!empty($expired_date)) { ?>
                                <span><?php echo date_i18n( get_option( 'date_format' ), strtotime( get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_job_expires', true ) ) ) ?></span>
                    
                    <?php
                                        $datetime1 = new DateTime($expired_date);
                                        $datetime2 = date('d');
                                        $interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
                                        echo $interval->d;

                     ?>
                        <?php }
                    } 
                    ?>

Can anyone help me with what I have wrong?

Many thanks

(continuing from topic title)
So if I set a date of July 7 2011 into my script, hard coded in, I would like the current date to be checked against the hard coded date, and return true if the current date is within a week leading up to the hard coded date.

How could I go about doing this easily?

I've been researching dates in php but I can't seem to work out the best way to achieve what I'm after.

Cheers
Denno

I'm getting this Time Zone error.
Perhaps it's a compatibility issue with PHP 5.3. Looked all over for an answer without finding one.
Here is the error message


Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.
You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.
In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning,
you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST'
instead in /blocked.php on line 41
12/02/12

Here is the code. Line 41 is near the bottom, the one with the d,m,y.  Perhaps the echo date (d/m/y") needs to be changed. Appreciate any help!

Code: [Select]
   <table border="3" width="16%" align="center" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FF6600" bordercolor="red" bordercolordark="red" bordercolorlight="red">
                            <tr>
                                    <td width="176">

                                            <p align="center"><?php // shows IP Number on Page
            echo $ip; ?> </p>

                                    </td>
                            </tr>
                    </table>
                    <p align="center"><?php // Show the user agent
        echo 'Your user agent is: <b>'.$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].'</b><br />';?></p>
                    [b]<h1 align="center"><?php echo date("d/m/y");?></h1>[/b]
            </td>
    </tr>
</table
[,code]

Hi, Currently I am making a module for joomla. every article has an publish date, if the article was published in 7 days ago, it will displayed as "article in last week", My idea is to use today's date - publish date, if the result is greater than 7 and smaller than 14, the article will be displayed as "article in last week.
Any one know how to write this code?
Here is what I have got, but not working.

<?php
$todays_date = date("Y-m-d"); 

$result = mysql_query("select * from jos_content where $test between $todays_date-14 and $todays_date-7");  
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
echo "$todays_date - $row[title]";
}
?>

Hi Guys..

How can I change a date on the fly ?
Everything is UTC on my server.

How can I change a date to something else on the fly?

Ie:

$timezone = "cet";
$datetime = "2011-09-04 19:53:00";

echo $datetime($timezone);

So I can give it a datetime and have it echo the datetime as if it were in the other timezone?

Thanks
Graham

Hi,

I am trying to convert a String date into numeric date using PHP function's, but haven't found such function.
Had a look at date(), strtotime(), getdate();

e.g. Apr 1 2011  ->    04-01-2011

Could someone please shed some light on this?

Regards,
Abhishek

Hi guys, I'm putting together a small event system where I want the user to add his own date and time into a textfield (I'll probably make this a series of drop-downs/a date picker later).
This is then stored as a timestamp - "0000-00-00 00:00:00" which displays fine until I try to echo it out as a UK date in this format - jS F Y, which just gives today's date but not the inputted date.



Here's the code I have right now:

Code: [Select]
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM stuff.events ORDER BY eventdate ASC");

echo "<br />";
echo mysql_result($result, $i, 'eventvenue');
echo ", ";

$dt = new DateTime($eventdate);

echo $dt->format("jS F Y");


In my mysql table eventdate is set up as follows:
 
field - eventdate
type - timestamp
length/values - blank
default - current_timestamp
collation - blank
attributes - on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
null - blank
auto_increment - blank


Any help as to why this could be happening would be much appreciated, thanks.

Hi there,

I have a string '12/04/1990', that's in the format dd/mm/yyyy.

I'm attempting to convert that string to a Date, and then insert that date into a MySQL DATE field.

The problem is, every time I try to do so, I keep getting values like this in the database: 1970-01-01.


Any ideas?


Much appreciated.

i have a table that shows payments made but  want to the payments only showing from a set date(06/12/14) and before this date i dont want to show   this is my sql that doesnt seem to work and is showing dates before the specified date. .

"SELECT * FROM payments2014, signup2014, editprop2014 WHERE signup2014.userid = payments2014.payment_userid AND editprop2014.prop_id = signup2014.prop_id AND signup2014.userid !='page1' AND signup2014.userid !='page6' AND signup2014.userid !='page4' AND payments2014.payment_transaction_status !='none' AND payments2014.payment_transaction_status !='CANCELLEDa' AND payments2014.payment_type !='deposit' AND payments2014.payment_paid_timestamp NOT LIKE '%2012%' AND payments2014.payment_paid_timestamp NOT LIKE '%2011%' AND payments2014.payment_paid_timestamp >= '06/12/14' ORDER BY payments2014.payment_id DESC"

i have some other parts in the statment but this one that should be filtering is 

host_payments2014.payment_paid_timestamp >= '06/12/14' 

thanks in advance

Hi,

I have database stored a field of date. I want to check if the date in the DB field is the same as the current date, how to do it?

Code:

$oracle = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, $_POST['oracle']);
$query 	= mysqli_query($con, "SELECT indate FROM staff WHERE OracleID ='$oracle'");
$row	= mysqli_fetch_array($query);
$num_row = mysqli_num_rows($query);
		
	if ($num_row > 0) 
	{	
		$curdate = date();
		if ($row['indate'] !== $curdate)
		{
			$query1=mysqli_query($con, "update staff set ClockedIn = 0, ClockedOut = 0 where OracleID='$session_id'")or die('Error In Session');
			header('location:home.php');				
		}
	}

 

Hi there,

i am using a form with 2 inputs which are equipped with a datepicker: Date 1 & Date 2, is it possible to calculate how many days are there from Date 1 to Date 2 (including the selected ones) ?

On my form the dates are in this format: September 08, 2011 (i guess i can change that to numeric only, if that helps) Tamper data shows them getting posted like this: September+14%2C+2011

Any help / hints will be appreciated !

Hi...

Good day!

I have table that has a field from_date and to_date.

Now I just want to know if how can I display as table format the dates between from_date to_date.

Like this

from_date: 2011-12-16
to_date: 2011-12-31

I want to display it:

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 // table format.

Thank you

I am looking for a way to have my 'start_date', echo ('start_date' + 1 month).  I am looking at the line that reads .... date("F Y",strtotime($row['start_date'])).  Does anyone have a suggestion.  The date format read, July 2014 or alphabetical full month, numerical full year.  Thank you in advance.

    <?php

$query = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);if ($query === false){  exit("<pre>".print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));}while ($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($query)){  echo "<tr>
    <td><a href='view_invoice.php?meter_id=$meter_id&subaccount=$subaccount&start_date=$row[start_date]'>$row[meter_id]</a></td>
    <td>" . date("F Y",strtotime($row['start_date']))  . "<td>$row[invoice_no]</td><td>" . date_format($row['invoice_date'],'Y-m-d') . "<td>$row[amount_paid]</td>" . "<td>$row[payment_date]</td>" . "<td>$row[check_number]</td>" 
  ;}sqlsrv_free_stmt($query);
  ?>

Edited by Butterbean, 11 January 2015 - 08:19 PM.

Hi Guys,

Need some help

I have two dates:
Now= 2011-02-08 
Expires= 2011-06-15

How can I check if we are getting close to the expire date.

For example.

Lets say we were 5 days away from 2011-06-15 ( todays date was 2011-06-10 ) for example..

How can i tell this? / return 1

Ie:
if date is 5 days or less away do ( this )

Its s essentially so i can email people when something is due to expire.

Many thanks
L