Question

I am developing a job site, and the custumer would like the following.
On the job submit, the user will be able to set a date when the actual job will start, and in the search there are the following options for job start to select:

<option value="">Today</option>
<option value="">Tomorrow</option>
<option value="">In a week</option>
<option value="">In a month</option>

And im a bit lost at this part, i never did something like this.
Now i dont want anybody to write this for me, just give me an advice or a hint, for the logic, if its posible.

What i donr really get is, what values should i give the options, and how to get the actual reasults if there is.

Thank you

Answer 1

The values only need to be ones you’ll recognize when processing the request. They could be “today”, “tomorrow”, “next_week” and “next_month” if you want.

Then when handling the request, take today’s date and add:

• nothing (today)
• one day (tomorrow)
• seven days (in a week)
• one month (in a month)

Look at DateTime::add for the date arithmetic part.