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Nov 27.2010

Hi,

I am getting the current date and time using date(“Y-m-d, H:i:s”). How do I increment this by 1 day such that output is in “Y-m-d, H:i:s” format? I have tried several implementations of strtotime() but can’t get it to work.

Thanks,

bubbis

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@eval_BadCode_Nov 27.2010 — $tomorrow = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+1, date("y"));

echo "Tomorrow is ".date("m/d/y", $tomorrow).date(" g:i a");

You could also have figured it out using modulo and epoch time.
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@NogDogNov 27.2010 — I'd probably use strtotime() instead of mktime().
[code=php]
$tomorrow = strtotime('+1 day');
echo date("Y-m-d, H:i:s", $tomorrow);
[/code]
Or, if you don't need the $tomorrow variable elsewhere:
[code=php]
echo date("Y-m-d, H:i:s", strtotime('+1 day'));
[/code]
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@bubbisthedogauthorNov 27.2010 — Well I came back to thank eval(BadCode) for the help, and noticed NogDog's response. I had originally tried using strtotime(), which appeared at the time to be a cleaner approach; I just wasn't using it correctly. Anyway, here's what I used according to eval's advice, which worked just fine:
[code=php]
$OneDayAgoPrep = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-1,date("Y"));
$OneDayAgo = date("Y-m-d", $OneDayAgoPrep) . ' ' . date("H:i:s");
[/code]
I think I am going to use NogDog's solution, however.

NOTE: Turns out I needed to decrement the date, not increment it.

Thanks, eval and NogDog, for taking the time to help me.

bubbis
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@tdasthedayDec 21.2010 — using the above example:
[CODE]<?php echo date("Y-m-d, H:i:s", strtotime('+1 day'));?>[/CODE]

How could I limit it to business days only? Not worried about holidays.

Thank you in advance for your advice.
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@NogDogDec 21.2010 — using the above example:
[CODE]<?php echo date("Y-m-d, H:i:s", strtotime('+1 day'));?>[/CODE]

How could I limit it to business days only? Not worried about holidays.

Thank you in advance for your advice.[/QUOTE]

Untested:
[code=php]
$now = time(); // just in case it's a couple microseconds before midnight
$string = (date('N', $now) > 4) ? "next Monday" : "+1 day";
$echo date("Y-m-d, H:i:s", strtotime($string, $now));
[/code]
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@eval_BadCode_Dec 22.2010 — [code=php]

if (date("N") <= 5) echo date("Y-m-d, H:i:s", strtotime('+1 day'));

[/code]

time waits for no one.
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@tdasthedayDec 22.2010 — Thank you Nog and Eval. I will play with those.
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