Aug 20
did you know you can loop over dates like this;
<cfset startdate= “06/01/2004″>
<cfset enddate = “10/06/2004″>
<cfset enddate = “10/06/2004″>
<cfloop from=“#startdate#” to=“#enddate#” index=“i”>
<cfoutput>
#dateformat(i, “mm/dd/yyyy”)#<br />
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
It came as news to me too! Someone had asked on cf-talk how to loop between two dates outputting the entire list (not unlike my question last week about how to loop between two dates but only display the month - as i’m using in my archives pod). Initially i’d responded to use the dateadd() function, but then i tried the above code and was amazed when it didn’t error seeing as it’s not mentioned in the docs as being valid!
August 20th, 2004 at 7:03 am
This is pretty cool!
I like CF for its 4GL style advantatges. CFLOOP is supposed to be very performant as well…
September 28th, 2004 at 7:09 pm
I am very supprised this works! However I would be remise if didn’t mention that you should probably do this:
<cfoutput>
<cfloop from="#startdate#" to="#enddate#" index="i">
#dateformat(i, "mm/dd/yyyy")#<br />
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>