Hi, I've been playing around with components and modules in articles on joomla to get the things doing just what I want... and to finish it off I either need to get this javascript to work with the php (which probably won't because of server side/client side differences), or change it into php that does the same job...

<script language = 'javascript'>
<!--
var currentTime = new Date()
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1
var day = currentTime.getDate()
var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
var currentyear=year

var ParaMonth=month+1
if (ParaMonth>12)
{var currentyear=year+1
ParaMonth=ParaMonth-12}
var parameter =("&month="+ParaMonth+"&year="+currentyear)//-->
</script>

parameter is what I want to add to the end of a url link on the page... so that the url link contains &month=[thismonth+1]&year=[currentyear], having calculated the year and month correctly from today's date without needing me to manually update several pages.

I'd appreciate any help I can get, thanks!

One immediate isssue: Javascript is client-side, php is server-side execution. If you use php you're using the server's time settings, not the "person at the other end's". If you do go with php, getdate gives you an associative array of the various components of a date/time. Note: www.php.net is a great source, even if you're new to php

PHP Code:

$time = mktime(null, null, null, date('n') + 1);

$month = date('n', $time);
$year = date('Y', $time);

$query = http_build_query(array('month' => $month, 'year' => $year)); 


As Paul pointed out, the above solution will use the server's time rather than the user's.