Re: Variable substitution to replace switch

damezumari kirjoitti:
Thanks!

strtotime()= it is!

It would still be good to get my question answered:

"It works OK, but I would like to replace the switch statement with
one
statement a la:

&$type = &$type + $add;

Can that be done in php?"

If they are unix timestamps and seconds yes. If not, you need to convert them into such first. This is what strtotime does, and then using date again reverses it.

You can do this:
$time0 = time(); // get a unix timestamp
$interval = 60*60*24; // one day in seconds.
$time0 += $interval; // add an interval to timestamp
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $time0); // tomorrow

But this is good just for timestamps. Just remeber, working with timestamps is dreadful when it comes to daylight saving, leap years and other temporal oddities.

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