Code Snippet PHP Calculate Drop Date.

[namestrands]

Been refactoring a lot of our code this week and will be sharing snippets if anyone is interested. Let Me Know and I will post more.

function getDropDate ($date)
{
    $newdate = strtotime('+92 day', strtotime($date));
    $newdate = date('Y-m-d', $newdate);
    return $newdate;
}

Usage:

$date = '2011-08-21';
$dropdate = getDropDate($date);
echo $dropdate;

Nice and Simple I think..

 

[retired_member21]

Cheers

Can you please combine it with domainmonster.com's A+to E ratings based on previous drops - that would be awesome in php.

Just out of interest, how did you do it before refactoring - seems like the logical way to calculate drops?

 

[namestrands]

We dont like to use others work (domainmonster) I am sure they have invested enough time and effort over the years to warrant them keeping all that to themselves.

Before we never had this as a function, which seems obvious now, but sometimes when coding you mean to change it but if it works, dont fix sort of thing.. but we have 30k lines of code in our domain analysis system and its time to refactor and put into classes and functions where we can.

 

[retired_member21]

It's a great snippet for people - I was just excited reading the title

 

[Aiden Roberts]

Me Too!

I just need to find out what it does now

Aiden

 

[tifosi]

In php5.2+

function getDropDate ($date) {
    $dt = new DateTime($date);
    $dt->modify('+92 days');
    return $dt->format('Y-m-d');
}

date passed as standards complient format e.g Y-m-d

 

[Admin]

Thanks for sharing.

Code that does something similar to this has been in the Forum Header for years:

Today's Drop Dates are: 14-08-2011 or 21-08-2011

so that you can see the current drop dates easily.

Admin

 

[namestrands]

I was more thinking.. for people to add into their own scripts.

Perhaps a Code Section would be an interesting addition where people can share other such snippets.

 

[Admin]

You mean like this:
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/scripts-coding.html

 

[namestrands]

pah.. its buried under web design.. tis an insult to web developers ;-)

 

[Admin]

haha mea culpa

Do you want me to move this thread there?

Admin

 

[namestrands]

Would be good if had a Web Developer Section.. for coding requests and snippets..

Here is another:

function getalexarank ($domain)
{
    $data_url = "http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=s&url=$domain";
    $data = simplexml_load_file($data_url) or die("Could not load data");
    $rank = $data->SD->POPULARITY['TEXT'];
    if ($rank > 0) {
        $alexa = $rank;
    } else {
        $alexa = "none";
    }
    return $alexa;
}

 

[namestrands]

Get a real IP address from those Spammers hiding behind proxies.

    function get_ip() {
        if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {
            $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
        } elseif (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) {
            $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
        } else {
            $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
        }

        return $ip;
    }

 

[namestrands]

Really Useful for Getting Meta Keywords from a single keyword or phrase

function getmetakeywords($keyword) {
    $q = urlencode($keyword);
    $url = "http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?qu=" . $q;
    $text = file_get_contents($url); //Get content from Google suggest
    $keywords = array();
    $text = str_ireplace("window.google.ac.h([", "", $text); //Remove unwanted portion
    $arr_items = explode("],[", $text); //Split and put it in arrary

    foreach ($arr_items as $items) {
        $arr_item = explode(",", $items);
        $key = $arr_item[0]; //Get the keyword, the arrary will have other details such as no.of resutls also.
        $key = trim($key, "\""); //Use to remove quotes
        array_push($keywords, $key);
    }
    $keywords = implode(",", $keywords); //Convert Array into Comma Seperated values
    return $keywords;
}