pub date

[eluser]jmadsen[/eluser]
if you echo

Code:

$create_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

you'll see you get a formatted date (ex., "2010-09-26 09:43:41"), so adding 180 to it doesn't make sense.

There are two ways of adding onto dates, generally speaking:

1) convert your time to a timestamp and add 180 to that
2) break your date into its parts with date("Y"),etc; add +180 to the seconds part, then use mktime to turn it back into a formatted date.

Dates are confusing to work with, but worth the time to get comfortable with. Start here http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php and google a little for one of the many good tutorials on php date adding