[SOLVED] PHP dynamic number in HTML

schnappi · 09-05-2017, 04:01 PM

Hi,

Currently use this a lot in HTML:

Code:

<?php echo date("Y") ?>

Is there a similar way to use a similar php statement to insert a dynamic number (say the number of years between 2000 and 2017)?

michaelk · 09-05-2017, 04:13 PM

PHP is a general purpose scripting language. You can use any valid function and equation etc to calculate any sort of number desired.

There are many tutorials and websites on php programming and creating dynamic websites and I posted a couple of links.
Are you asking how to calculate the number of years between two dates?

http://php.net/
https://www.w3schools.com/php/

astrogeek · 09-05-2017, 04:19 PM

Your question can be understood more than one way. It would be helpful if you could tell us more precisely what you are trying to do, and what you mean by dynamic number in your own use context.

For example, if you really just want "the number of years between 2000 and 2017" then simply do the math and echo the result:

Code:

echo 2017-2000;

If you want each year in the range then a for loop will do it:

Code:

for($x=2000;$x<=2017;$x++)
        echo $x."\n";

How you do it depends very much on what you are trying to do.

schnappi · 09-06-2017, 11:20 AM

Thanks.

This gave what was looking for:

Code:

<?php echo date("Y")-2000 ?>

The above gives a dynamic number of years such as 17 years experience, ect.