Use mktime to generate 1 a timestamp one month ahead???

I'm an experienced PHP user, but I have never quite grasped mktime..

How do I use mktime to generate a timestamp which is one month in the future?

 

Try this:

<?php
echo mktime(date("g"),date("i"),date("s"),date("n")+1);
?>

PHP:

 

You don't need to use mktime for this.

$now = time();
$seconds_in_a_month = 60 * 60 * 24 * 31;
$one_month_in_the_future = $now + $seconds_in_a_month;

Code (markup):

All you do is add the number of seconds in a month to the current timestamp and it will give you a timestamp for one month in the future.

An example of when you might use mktime() is if the user has selected the day month and year from a dropdown and you want to convert it into a timestamp before storing it in a database:

// Let's just pretend you've already validated your form data
$birthday = mktime(0, 0, 1, $_POST['month'], $_POST['day'], $_POST['year']);

Code (markup):

 

uhhhhh

echo date("F d, Y g:i A", strtotime( "+ 1 month" ) );

PHP:

 

<?php

$next_month = mktime(0,0,0,date("m")+1,date("d"),date("Y"));

echo "In one month's time, it will be: ".date("D / M / Y", $next_month);

?>

PHP:

 

What value does this return if the month is december?

 

January???

 

I always use strtotime and let PHP figure it out for me.

 

12+1 = 13 ?

 

No, it shows as January