How do I add a certain number of days to the current date in PHP?
I already got the current date with:
$today = date('y:m:d');
Just need to add x number of days to it
How do I add a certain number of days to the current date in PHP?
I already got the current date with:
$today = date('y:m:d');
Just need to add x number of days to it
php
supports c style date functions. You can add or substract date-periods with English-language style phrases via the strtotime
function. examples...
$Today=date('y:m:d');
// add 3 days to date
$NewDate=Date('y:m:d', strtotime("+3 days"));
// subtract 3 days from date
$NewDate=Date('y:m:d', strtotime("-3 days"));
// PHP returns last sunday's date
$NewDate=Date('y:m:d', strtotime("Last Sunday"));
// One week from last sunday
$NewDate=Date('y:m:d', strtotime("+7 days Last Sunday"));
or
<select id="date_list" class="form-control" style="width:100%;">
<?php
$max_dates = 15;
$countDates = 0;
while ($countDates < $max_dates) {
$NewDate=Date('F d, Y', strtotime("+".$countDates." days"));
echo "<option>" . $NewDate . "</option>";
$countDates += 1;
}
?>
a day is 86400 seconds.
$tomorrow = date('y:m:d', time() + 86400);
The simplest way to add x no. of days..
echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime("+1 day")); //+1 day from today
OR from specified date...
echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime("+1 day", strtotime('2007-02-28')));
The date_add()
function should do what you want. In addition, check out the docs (unofficial, but the official ones are a bit sparse) for the DateTime
object, it's much nicer to work with than the procedural functions in PHP.
With php 5.3
$date = new DateTime();
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') , PHP_EOL;
$date->add($interval);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d'), PHP_EOL;
$date->add($interval);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d'), PHP_EOL;
will output
2012-12-24
2012-12-25
2012-12-26
If you need this code in several places then I'd suggest that you add a short function to keep your code simpler and easier to test.
function add_days( $days, $from_date = null ) {
if ( is_numeric( $from_date ) ) {
$new_date = $from_date;
} else {
$new_date = time();
}
// Timestamp is the number of seconds since an event in the past
// To increate the value by one day we have to add 86400 seconds to the value
// 86400 = 24h * 60m * 60s
$new_date += $days * 86400;
return $new_date;
}
Then you can use it anywhere like this:
$today = add_days( 0 );
$tomorrow = add_days( 1 );
$yesterday = add_days( -1 );
$in_36_hours = add_days( 1.5 );
$first_reminder = add_days( 10 );
$second_reminder = add_days( 5, $first_reminder );
$last_reminder = add_days( 3, $second_reminder );
Add 15 day to a select element (using "Alive to Die" suggestion)
<select id="date_list" class="form-control" style="width:100%;">
<?php
$max_dates = 15;
$countDates = 0;
while ($countDates < $max_dates) {
$NewDate=Date('F d, Y', strtotime("+".$countDates." days"));
echo "<option>" . $NewDate . "</option>";
$countDates += 1;
}
?>
<?php
$dt = new DateTime;
if(isset($_GET['year']) && isset($_GET['week'])) {
$dt->setISODate($_GET['year'], $_GET['week']);
} else {
$dt->setISODate($dt->format('o'), $dt->format('W'));
}
$year = $dt->format('o');
$week = $dt->format('W');
?>
<a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?week='.($week-1).'&year='.$year; ?>">Pre Week</a>
<a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?week='.($week+1).'&year='.$year; ?>">Next Week</a>
<table width="100%" style="height: 75px; border: 1px solid #00A2FF;">
<tr>
<td style="display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
cursor: pointer;
width: 75px;
height: 75px;
border: 4px solid #00A2FF;
border-radius: 50%;">Employee</td>
<?php
do {
echo "<td>" . $dt->format('M') . "<br>" . $dt->format('d M Y') . "</td>\n";
$dt->modify('+1 day');
} while ($week == $dt->format('W'));
?>
</tr>
</table>