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Friendly Date Range

Type:	code fragment
Added by:	wilton
Entered:	18/05/2003
Last modified:	09/12/2002
Rating:	- (fewer than 3 votes)
Views:	5238

Give this function two dates, of format YYYY-MM-DD and it will print a friendly intelligent string. ie it only print date elements that are different between the two dates.

<?php
function date_range($startdate,$enddate) {

                              //                                                                                                                  


                              // Print friendly date range given start and end in YYYY-MM-DD format.                                              


                              //                                                                                                                  


                            

                              $start = getdate(strtotime($startdate));

                              $end = getdate(strtotime($enddate));

                            

                              if (($start['year'] == $end['year'])

                              AND ($start['month'] == $end['month'])

                                  AND ($start['mday'] == $end['mday'])){

                                $dates = date ("l jS F, Y",strtotime($startdate));

                              }

                            

                              if (($start['year'] == $end['year'])

                              AND ($start['month'] == $end['month'])

                                  AND ($start['mday'] != $end['mday'])){

                                $dates = date("l jS",strtotime($startdate));

                                $dates .= " - ";

                                $dates .= date ("l jS F, Y",strtotime($enddate));

                              }

                            

                              if (($start['year'] == $end['year'])

                              AND ($start['month'] != $end['month'])

                                  AND ($start['mday'] != $end['mday'])){

                                $dates = date("l jS F",strtotime($startdate));

                                $dates .= " - ";

                                $dates .= date ("l jS F, Y",strtotime($enddate));

                              }

                            

                            if (($start['year'] != $end['year'])

                              AND ($start['month'] != $end['month'])

                                  AND ($start['mday'] != $end['mday'])){

                                $dates = date("l jS F, Y",strtotime($startdate));

                                $dates .= " - ";

                                $dates .= date ("l jS F, Y",strtotime($enddate));

                              }

                            

                              return $dates;

                            }
?>

Usage Example

eg

                            date_range('2003-03-22',2003-03-25');

                            Saturday 22nd - Tuesday 25th March, 2003

                            

                            or

                            date_range('2003-03-22',2003-04-25');

                            Saturday 22nd March - Friday 25th April, 2003

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