php current day date

hi ,


i want to know how can i use the php function to know that current date
Initially i was using unix time stamp.

what i want is

if (now date is 26 feb)
do this

if(now date is 27 feb)
do thta


with unix time stamp method i had to use

$from = strtotime("26 Feb 2008");
$to = strtotime("27 Feb 2008");

if(now >from and now <to)
do this


so here i had to use two variables from and to to get date of 1 day 26 feb

Is there any function which can do it in one step e,g

if (now = 26 feb)
.....

starting from 1 st second of 26 feb to last second of that day

$today = date('j M');

switch($today)
{
case '25 Feb':
echo 'today is the 25th of February';
break;

case '26 Feb':
echo 'today is the 26th of February';
break;

case '27 Feb':
echo 'today is the 27th of February';
break;
}

thanks dude
i want to compare the next seven days in advance how can i do that e,g

$next = $today + $i

where $i is variable for next 7 days

then i have to copmare its 26 or 27 or 28 feb

Not sure what you're asking, but to get the date of the next day you would use something like this:
$next = date('j M', strtotime('+1 day'));

can i use


$next = date('j M', strtotime('+".$i." day'));

can i use


$next = date('j M', strtotime('+".$i." day'));

No but you can use:


$next = date('j M', strtotime("+".$i." day"));

No but you can use:


$next = date('j M', strtotime("+".$i." day"));
Or:
$next = date('j M', strtotime('+' . $i . ' day'));
// or
$next = date('j M', strtotime("+$i day"));
Edit: I guess I should point out that this would be a little slower(roughly 0.0004 seconds) than just adding 86400(the number of seconds in a day) to time() (http://php.net/time); or multiplying the number of days by 86400, and then adding it.