php : day of the year

[razor]

does any one know how i would convert july 8th into the day of the year?

[Canuckkev]

Like you want to find the number of the day in the year, like out of 365? Some simple math functions could do it. There might be some built in php thing too, but I don't know any php. Just don't forget about leap years when coding it.

[lucifer]

getdate
(PHP3 , PHP4 )

getdate -- Get date/time information
Description

array getdate (int timestamp)


Returns an associative array containing the date information of the timestamp as the following array elements:


"seconds" - seconds

"minutes" - minutes

"hours" - hours

"mday" - day of the month

"wday" - day of the week, numeric

"mon" - month, numeric

"year" - year, numeric

"yday" - day of the year, numeric; i.e. "299"

"weekday" - day of the week, textual, full; i.e. "Friday"

"month" - month, textual, full; i.e. "January"

[razor]

here is the snippet:

$timestamp = mktime (0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);
$time = getdate($timestamp);
$yday = $time['yday'];
$yday = $yday + 1;
echo $yday;