Adding + 13 years to a date variable.

[ole90]

Hey guys,

i store the users birthdate in a field in my members table. It is a date type, and i'm trying to make a section of the site which is only for 18+.

Date is stored like this

YYYY/MM/DD

I grab the value from the DB and then i want to add 18 years to the current date so i can do this

$birthdate = $birthdate + 18 years.
$currentdate = date("Y-m-d");
if($birthdate > $currentdate) {
"You are not 18";
}

So i guess i just need to know how to add 18 years to the variable :X

Any help? thanks

[coolR]

Use this function to calculate age

function getage($strdate)
{
    $dob = explode("/",$strdate);
    if(count($dob)!=3)
    {
      return 0;
    }
    $y = $dob[0];
    $m = $dob[1];
    $d = $dob[2];
    if(strlen($y)!=4)
    {
      return 0;
    }
    if(strlen($m)!=2)
    {
      return 0;
    }
    if(strlen($d)!=2)
    {
      return 0;
    }
  $y += 0;
  $m += 0;
  $d += 0;
  if($y==0) return 0;
  $rage = date("Y") - $y;
  if(date("m")<$m)
  {
    $rage-=1;
    
  }else{
    if((date("m")==$m)&&(date("d")<$d))
    {
      $rage-=1;
    }
  }
  return $rage;
} 

[ole90]

Thanks a lot

[galen]

that's way too complicated

$d = '1980/11/24';
echo date('y-m-d', strtotime('+18 years', strtotime($d))); 

Might be a better idea to store whether or not the user is over 18 in the session/cookie when they login

[SweetGamez]

that's way too complicated

$d = '1980/11/24';
echo date('y-m-d', strtotime('+18 years', strtotime($d))); 

Might be a better idea to store whether or not the user is over 18 in the session/cookie when they login

Try his response Alot cleaner/easier.