Hi,
If you want "last month" from the *CURRENT* date + time, then look at
something like strtotime('last month'), which may help, generating a time
stamp of the same day, time, etc in the previous month.
To format a different time stamp into what you want, consider the date()
function in the manual... for starters, it's quicker for the code you have
below:
NOTE: untested code :)
<?
$timestamp = time();
$formated_date = date('m/d/Y', $timestamp);
echo $formated_date;
// echos what you already had
?>
however, since we want to have one less month:
<?
$timestamp = time();
$month = date('m', $timestamp);
$day = date('d', $timestamp);
$year = date('Y', $timestamp);
// subtract 1 from $month, unless it's
// value is 1, in which case it should be
// 12, and the year dropped by 1 as well
if($month == 1)
{
$month = 12;
$year = $year - 1;
}
else
{
$month = $month - 1;
}
$formatted_date = "{$month}/{$day}/{$year}";
echo $formatted_date;
?>
I have no idea why you want to output "April" in addition to "4", but you
can take your $formatted_date, feed it into strtotime(), which gives you the
new timestamp. From there, you can get a word month out of the date()
function, which gives you the text "April":
<?
//.. continued from above code
$new_timestamp = strtotime($formatted_date);
$month_t = date('F', $new_timestamp);
echo $month_t;
?>
There are prolly better ways to do this, but you can see, if you think about
it, and read the manual (just two pages!!!!!!!!!), you'll get what you want.
Justin French
on 21/05/02 1:01 AM, Randy Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is their a way to retrieve the previous month using/altering the code
> below:
>
> // get the current timestamp into an array
> $timestamp = time();
> $date_time_array = getdate($timestamp);
> $month = $date_time_array["mon"];
> $day = $date_time_array["mday"];
> $year = $date_time_array["year"];
> $tmonth= $date_time_array["month"];
>
> outputs
>
> 5202002 May
>
> i need it to output
> 4/20/2002 April
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy
>
>
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