calculating future dates

Hello:

I have a variable ($today) that is simply

$today = date("m/j/Y");

I want to get another variable for x months down the line, but using the php.net reference of the mktime and date command, my second date, as follows comes out in a large number. How can I make sure it is forwarding the date properly, and format it like mm/dd/yyyy? Any help would be greatly apperciated.

This is the line from php.net reference page. I need this to calculate properly, and format mm/dd/yyyy - just like my variable up top.

$two_months_from_today = mktime(0,0,0,date("m")+2 ,date
("d"),date("Y"));


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Just a suggestion, I can't really prove this theory at the moment since I have no access to a webserver with PHP, but you can set a second variable that holds a formatted date string using the "large number" generated from mktime like this:

$retval = date("m/j/Y",$two_months_from_today);

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by cka:
Just a suggestion, I can't really prove this theory at the moment since I have no access to a webserver with PHP, but you can set a second variable that holds a formatted date string using the "large number" generated from mktime like this:

$retval = date("m/j/Y",$two_months_from_today);

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It works! Very nice! Thanks!



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