PHP: Return all dates between two dates in an arra

Question

Expected Input:

getDatesFromRange( '2010-10-01', '2010-10-05' );

Expected Output:

Array( '2010-10-01', '2010-10-02', '2010-10-03', '2010-10-04', '2010-10-05' )

Answer 1

<?
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2010-10-01', '2010-10-05' ));

function getDatesFromRange($startDate, $endDate)
{
    $return = array($startDate);
    $start = $startDate;
    $i=1;
    if (strtotime($startDate) < strtotime($endDate))
    {
       while (strtotime($start) < strtotime($endDate))
        {
            $start = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($startDate.'+'.$i.' days'));
            $return[] = $start;
            $i++;
        }
    }

    return $return;
}

Answer 2

$report_starting_date=date('2014-09-16');
$report_ending_date=date('2014-09-26');
$report_starting_date1=date('Y-m-d',strtotime($report_starting_date.'-1 day'));
while (strtotime($report_starting_date1)<strtotime($report_ending_date))
{

    $report_starting_date1=date('Y-m-d',strtotime($report_starting_date1.'+1 day'));
    $dates[]=$report_starting_date1;
  } 
  print_r($dates);

 // dates    ('2014-09-16', '2014-09-26')


 //print result    Array
(
[0] => 2014-09-16
[1] => 2014-09-17
[2] => 2014-09-18
[3] => 2014-09-19
[4] => 2014-09-20
[5] => 2014-09-21
[6] => 2014-09-22
[7] => 2014-09-23
[8] => 2014-09-24
[9] => 2014-09-25
[10] => 2014-09-26
)

Answer 3

$arr = range(strtotime("2013-12-01"),strtotime("2013-12-31"), "86400");
array_walk_recursive($arr, function(&$element) { $element = date("Y-m-d", $element); });
print_r ($arr);

Answer 4

Short function. PHP 5.3 and up. Can take optional third param of any date format that strtotime can understand. Automatically reverses direction if end < start.

function getDatesFromRange($start, $end, $format='Y-m-d') {
    return array_map(function($timestamp) use($format) {
        return date($format, $timestamp);
    },
    range(strtotime($start) + ($start < $end ? 4000 : 8000), strtotime($end) + ($start < $end ? 8000 : 4000), 86400));
}

Test:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-7-28','2016-8-2' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-8-2','2016-7-28' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-10-28','2016-11-2' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-11-2','2016-10-28' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-4-2','2016-3-25' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-3-25','2016-4-2' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-8-2','2016-7-25' ));
print_r(getDatesFromRange( '2016-7-25','2016-8-2' ));

Output:

Array ( [0] => 2016-07-28 [1] => 2016-07-29 [2] => 2016-07-30 [3] => 2016-07-31 [4] => 2016-08-01 [5] => 2016-08-02 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-08-02 [1] => 2016-08-01 [2] => 2016-07-31 [3] => 2016-07-30 [4] => 2016-07-29 [5] => 2016-07-28 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-10-28 [1] => 2016-10-29 [2] => 2016-10-30 [3] => 2016-10-31 [4] => 2016-11-01 [5] => 2016-11-02 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-11-02 [1] => 2016-11-01 [2] => 2016-10-31 [3] => 2016-10-30 [4] => 2016-10-29 [5] => 2016-10-28 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-04-02 [1] => 2016-04-01 [2] => 2016-03-31 [3] => 2016-03-30 [4] => 2016-03-29 [5] => 2016-03-28 [6] => 2016-03-27 [7] => 2016-03-26 [8] => 2016-03-25 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-03-25 [1] => 2016-03-26 [2] => 2016-03-27 [3] => 2016-03-28 [4] => 2016-03-29 [5] => 2016-03-30 [6] => 2016-03-31 [7] => 2016-04-01 [8] => 2016-04-02 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-08-02 [1] => 2016-08-01 [2] => 2016-07-31 [3] => 2016-07-30 [4] => 2016-07-29 [5] => 2016-07-28 [6] => 2016-07-27 [7] => 2016-07-26 [8] => 2016-07-25 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2016-07-25 [1] => 2016-07-26 [2] => 2016-07-27 [3] => 2016-07-28 [4] => 2016-07-29 [5] => 2016-07-30 [6] => 2016-07-31 [7] => 2016-08-01 [8] => 2016-08-02 )

Answer 5

This is very very flexible.

/**
 * Creating date collection between two dates
 *
 * <code>
 * <?php
 * # Example 1
 * date_range("2014-01-01", "2014-01-20", "+1 day", "m/d/Y");
 *
 * # Example 2. you can use even time
 * date_range("01:00:00", "23:00:00", "+1 hour", "H:i:s");
 * </code>
 *
 * @author Ali OYGUR <[e-mail]>
 * @param string since any date, time or datetime format
 * @param string until any date, time or datetime format
 * @param string step
 * @param string date of output format
 * @return array
 */
function date_range($first, $last, $step = '+1 day', $output_format = 'd/m/Y' ) {

    $dates = array();
    $current = strtotime($first);
    $last = strtotime($last);

    while( $current <= $last ) {

        $dates[] = date($output_format, $current);
        $current = strtotime($step, $current);
    }

    return $dates;
}

Answer 6

function datesbetween ($date1,$date2)
{
    $dates= array();
    for ($i = $date1
       ; $i<= $date1
       ; $i=date_add($i, date_interval_create_from_date_string('1 days')) ) 
    {            
       $dates[] = clone $i;
    }
    return $dates;
}