Question

I’m not really sure what to call this. But basically I want to be able to have a user click on “Popular Stories from This Week”, and it will take them to a page that will have other stuff but mainly the dates. For example, July 10-17.

I’m currently using this code:

    $seven_days_ago = date('j') - 7;
    $time_span = date('F ' . $seven_days_ago . ' - j');

Now, I ran into a problem when we entered July, because it would display something like July -3 – 4. I need a way for it to detect if the seven days ago variable is negative, and figure out what it should display. Help?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use strtotime for this:

$seven_days_ago = strtotime('-7 days');
$time_span = date('F j', $seven_days_ago) . ' - ' . date('F j');

The above gives me “June 28 – July 5” for $time_span.