Please Help- PHP- I need to include a file named for a future date to create calendar

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May 6th, 2003, 07:30 PM

Ed Vinson

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Please Help- PHP- I need to include a file named for a future date to create calendar

Greetings,

Any assistance would be deeply appreciated. I am confused as to how I can include a file named for a future date, say 3 days in the future. I would like to name the files something like YYYYmmdd.txt.

The purpose is to have a dynamic calendar that will show the next seven days of events, patched together from 7 text files.

Sorry if this has already been asnwered here, but I can't seem to find it if it has.

May 7th, 2003, 02:49 AM

fakker

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hey ed,

welcome to the devarticles web site!!

you could do something like compare the current system date to that of any files on the server.....

eg:

PHP Code:


		
			
//read the directory for files

$directory = opendir(".");



//get the current date in the right format (Y = YYYY, m = MM, d = DD)

$todaysDate = date("Ymd",$time);



//do a loop

while($filename = readdir($directory))

{

    //compare each file name to the current date

    if ($filename == $todaysDate . ".txt")

    {

        //do something with the file

    }



}

that in theory might work, but I'd have to look more closely to see if it would work in practise... but it's a start!!

Is that the sort of thing you mean?

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