<?php // Determine the academic year of a specific timestamp // Returns the year which this academic year started, e.g. 2006 for the year 2006/07 function academicYear($timestamp) { $date = getdate($timestamp); // Anything before September is the previous academic year if ($date['mon'] < 9) { return $date['year'] - 1; } else { return $date['year']; } } ?>