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weezerboy
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February 7, 2013
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Previous /Next Day

  • February 7, 2013
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I have a page where the day and date is displayed like this.

   < Previous Day      -  Wednesday January  23, 2013   >    Next Day

How do I make it so when the userclicks on < Previous Day    link that they go to Tuesday January  22, 2013 and when they lick on > Next Day they go to Thursday January  24, 2013  etc?

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    Correct answer BreakawayPaul

    It's tough to provide good answers when we don't know all the details.  Are you passing these pages to a database to pull info for that day?  Do you just need a date selector?

    I threw this together in a few minutes (and I'm sure it looks it!)

    <cfset somedate = [date of whatever your current page is]>

    <cfset yesterday = dateadd("d",-1,somedate)>

    <cfset tomorrow = dateadd("d",1,somedate)>

    <cfoutput><a href="page.cfm?date=#dateformat(yesterday,"yyyymmdd")#">&lt; Previous Day</a> - #dateformat(somedate,"mmmm dd, yyyy")# - <a href="page.cfm?date=#dateformat(tomorrow,"yyyymmdd")#">Next Day &gt;</a></cfoutput>

    But "somedate" would have to come from somewhere.  Your database?  Hard to know without some more info.

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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2013

    Make them links with url variables.

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    weezerboyAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2013

    Yes. What would the links be?

    BreakawayPaul
    BreakawayPaulCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2013

    It's tough to provide good answers when we don't know all the details.  Are you passing these pages to a database to pull info for that day?  Do you just need a date selector?

    I threw this together in a few minutes (and I'm sure it looks it!)

    <cfset somedate = [date of whatever your current page is]>

    <cfset yesterday = dateadd("d",-1,somedate)>

    <cfset tomorrow = dateadd("d",1,somedate)>

    <cfoutput><a href="page.cfm?date=#dateformat(yesterday,"yyyymmdd")#">&lt; Previous Day</a> - #dateformat(somedate,"mmmm dd, yyyy")# - <a href="page.cfm?date=#dateformat(tomorrow,"yyyymmdd")#">Next Day &gt;</a></cfoutput>

    But "somedate" would have to come from somewhere.  Your database?  Hard to know without some more info.

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