smarty and date

Question

Hi,

i get date with: {$smarty.now|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'}

But how get 20 day after?

If now: 2010 05 05 12:12:12, i wish show 2010 25 05 12:12:12

Answer 1

Use the strtotime() php function and assign your variable to smarty. Something like this:

<?php
$later = strtotime('+20 day');
$smarty->assign('later', $later);
?>

Then in the template:

{ $later|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'}

Answer 2

{$smarty.now} is a simple timestamp (number of seconds since 1970). So you can just add as many seconds to it as you need:

{$smarty.now+20*24*60*60|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'} //+20 days

This works in Smarty3, if not in older versions then you might need to do the math with {assign} and/or {math} directives.