How do I get the current year plus the next year with php for my wordpress function?

Question

I want to create a shortcode function that returns: 2021 - 2022

And then it would update next year automatically.

This is the (broken) code I have so far:

function current_class_year(){
    return date('Y'); // current year
    return date('Y', strtotime('+1 year')); // next year
}
add_shortcode( 'current_class_year', 'current_class_year' );

Thanks for any help.

Does this answer your question? [How can I combine two strings together in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8336858/how-can-i-combine-two-strings-together-in-php) — El_Vanja, May 20 '21 at 15:19
You're looking to combine two strings and then return that. What you have now can't work because `return` terminates the function, so the second line is never executed. — El_Vanja, May 20 '21 at 15:20
That's the right idea, but it doesn't work in a function when I tried it. Or at least don't know how. — Lena Shore, May 20 '21 at 15:22

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 20 '21 at 15:20

2

try this

function current_class_year(){
    return date('Y') .' - '.date('Y', strtotime('+1 year'));
}
add_shortcode( 'current_class_year', 'current_class_year' );

answered May 20 '21 at 15:20

Kashif

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '21 at 15:23

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function current_class_year(){

    return date('Y').' - '.date('Y', strtotime('+1 year')); // Will return : current year - next year

}

answered May 20 '21 at 15:23

Gaurav Saxena

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This also works like a charm! Thank you so much!!!! – Lena Shore May 20 '21 at 17:44

How do I get the current year plus the next year with php for my wordpress function?

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