Doubt #1
I have a program that I want the user to input date. When the user inputs the date, is it able to format it to system date dd-mm-yyy and then echo the value into a text file?
Doubt#2
If the above is not going to work, I tried to have the system date appear in the user input field and when the user enters to continue, the date shown can be echoed into a text file? The date command that I used is "date +%d-%m-%y".
My codes are something lk this:
Please do help me if you know of a way as I just started learning bash shell programming and its really difficult!!
Thanks in advance !
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-24-2009 at 06:02 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
datetime.add
DATETIME.ADD(3) 1 DATETIME.ADD(3)DateTime::add - Adds an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds to a DateTime object
Object oriented style
SYNOPSIS
public DateTime DateTime::add (DateInterval $interval)
DESCRIPTION
Procedural style
DateTime date_add (DateTime $object, DateInterval $interval)
Adds the specified DateInterval object to the specified DateTime object.
PARAMETERS
o $object
-Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(3). The function modifies this object.
o $interval
- A DateInterval object
RETURN VALUES
Returns the DateTime object for method chaining or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
DateTime.add(3) example
Object oriented style
<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
$date->add(new DateInterval('P10D'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "
";
?>
Procedural style
<?php
$date = date_create('2000-01-01');
date_add($date, date_interval_create_from_date_string('10 days'));
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d');
?>
The above examples will output:
2000-01-11
Example #2
Further DateTime.add(3) examples
<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
$date->add(new DateInterval('PT10H30S'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "
";
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
$date->add(new DateInterval('P7Y5M4DT4H3M2S'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "
";
?>
The above example will output:
2000-01-01 10:00:30
2007-06-05 04:03:02
Example #3
Beware when adding months
<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-12-31');
$interval = new DateInterval('P1M');
$date->add($interval);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "
";
$date->add($interval);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "
";
?>
The above example will output:
2001-01-31
2001-03-03
NOTES DateTime.modify(3) is an alternative when using PHP 5.2.
SEE ALSO DateTime.sub(3), DateTime.diff(3), DateTime.modify(3).
PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.ADD(3)