how to get current year

[eluser]John Murowaniecki[/eluser]
You can use jQuery to make a JSON request to a controller such as CodeIgniter below:

Code:

<?php
class Ajax extends CI_Controller
{
    function year()
    {
        print(json_encode(array(
            'long' => date('Y'),
            'short' => date('y')
        )));
    }
    #

}
#
/* eof: controller/ajax.php */

So if you request the url http://yourdomain/yourapplicationfolder/ajax/year you will receive a JSON formated string: {"long":"2011","short":"11"}. So if you need an how-to get data using jQuery.Ajax here´s a tip:

Code:

// <![CDATA[
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://yourdomain/yourapplicationfolder/ajax/year',
        type: 'GET',
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(data) {
            alert('long '+data.long+'\nshort '+data.short);
        }
    });
// ]]>

More information about jQuery and Ajax you'll find here http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ , if you need to know how json works I recomend you to read http://www.json.org/ .