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offsetDate

Syntax

string offsetDate( 
       string $offset
       optional float $baseDate
)

Description

The function offsetDate() returns a string with the native SQL functions to calculate future and past dates based on $baseDate in a portable fashion. If $baseDate is not defined, then the current date (at 12 midnight) is used. Returns the SQL string that performs the calculation when passed to Execute(). The value returned when the statement is execute is an ISO Date

Inputs

The $offset parameter can be presented in 2 ways:

As a decimal indicating the number of days where the decimal portion is the fraction of a day (e.g. 0.5 = 12 hours)
As string in the format “float/24” where the floating point number is the number of hours

Example

In Oracle, to find the date and time that is 2.5 days from today, you can use:

/*
 * get date one week from now  
 */
 
$fld = $conn->OffsetDate(7); 
/*
 * returns "(trunc(sysdate)+7")
 */
 
/*===
 *  get date and time that is 60 hours from current date and time 
 */ 
 
$fld = $conn->OffsetDate("60/24", $conn->sysTimeStamp); 
/*
 *   returns "(sysdate+2.5)"
 */  
 
$conn->Execute("UPDATE TABLE SET dodate=$fld WHERE ID=$id");

Example Using SQL Server

/*
* Get Date -273.5 Hours in the past
*/
$fld = $db->offsetDate(-273.5/24);
 
/*
* Returns " SELECT FORMAT(DATEADD(hour ,-273.5,GETDATE()), 'yyyy-MM-dd')"
*/