How do I change the date format and print Today

PHP
1

Hi all

I’m working with some event listings which all have dates printed below.
What I’d like to do is show today and tomorrow in place of the date format.

Example:

21 March - Would print Today
22 March - Would print Tomorrow
23 March - Would stay the same etc
…

I’m currently using basic date.

date("l j")

Does anybody know how to do this?
Any guidance on what sort of logic I need to use.

Thanks,
Barry

2

rough psuedo code

If system_date == stored_date
$diplay_date = “Today”
else if system_date + 1 day == stored_date
$display_date = “Tomorrow”
else
$display_date = stored_date
endif
echo $display_date

3

Thanks litebearer

The output I already have is being derived from a Drupal array, as shown below.
Finding it hard how I could modify this, code it up.

array
    (
      'data' => $sorted[date("l j", strtotime($node->field_event_date_and_time[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value']))][] = l($node->title,drupal_get_path_alias('node/'.$node->nid)),
      'class' => array('some_class'),
    );

I did try adding the below just above the array which printed today 5 times above all my markup.

if (strtotime($node->field_event_date_and_time[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value']) > strtotime('now')) {
        print "today";
    }

Any suggestions, thanks.

Barry

4

Looking at litebearer snippet, I need to create a function that I can use that will check the date.

Can anybody help coding this up?

I’ve made a rough start on a function:

function datecheck() {
  if (date('now')) {
    print "today";
  } else if (date("+1 day")) {
    print "tommorrow";
  } else if (date("-1 day")) {
    print "yesterday";
  } else {
    print "date as normal";
  }
}

I’d then like to simply wrap the function around the code above.
We can also ignore the post/code above for now if thats confusing things.

Thanks, Barry

5

Other something like:

function datecheck() {

  $datetoday = date('now');

  if ($datetoday == date('now')) {
    print "today";
  } else if ($datetoday == date("+1 day")) {
    print "tommorrow";
  } else if ($datetoday == date("-1 day")) {
    print "yesterday";
  } else {
    print $datetoday;
  }
}

?

Thanks