I have 2 dates in PHP, how can I run a foreach loo

Question

I'm starting with a date 2010-05-01 and ending with 2010-05-10. How can I iterate through all of those dates in PHP?

Answer 1

This also includes the last date

$begin = new DateTime( "2015-07-03" );
$end   = new DateTime( "2015-07-09" );

for($i = $begin; $i <= $end; $i->modify('+1 day')){
    echo $i->format("Y-m-d");
}

If you dont need the last date just remove = from the condition.

Answer 2

here's a way:

 $date = new Carbon();
 $dtStart = $date->startOfMonth();
 $dtEnd = $dtStart->copy()->endOfMonth();

 $weekendsInMoth = [];
 while ($dtStart->diffInDays($dtEnd)) {

     if($dtStart->isWeekend()) {
            $weekendsInMoth[] = $dtStart->copy();
     }

     $dtStart->addDay();
 }

The result of $weekendsInMoth is array of weekend days!

Answer 3

Here is another simple -

/**
 * Date range
 *
 * @param $first
 * @param $last
 * @param string $step
 * @param string $format
 * @return array
 */
function dateRange( $first, $last, $step = '+1 day', $format = 'Y-m-d' ) {
    $dates = [];
    $current = strtotime( $first );
    $last = strtotime( $last );

    while( $current <= $last ) {

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

    return $dates;
}

Example:

print_r( dateRange( '2010-07-26', '2010-08-05') );

Array (
    [0] => 2010-07-26
    [1] => 2010-07-27
    [2] => 2010-07-28
    [3] => 2010-07-29
    [4] => 2010-07-30
    [5] => 2010-07-31
    [6] => 2010-08-01
    [7] => 2010-08-02
    [8] => 2010-08-03
    [9] => 2010-08-04
    [10] => 2010-08-05
)

Answer 4

$startTime = strtotime('2010-05-01'); 
$endTime = strtotime('2010-05-10'); 

// Loop between timestamps, 1 day at a time 
$i = 1;
do {
   $newTime = strtotime('+'.$i++.' days',$startTime); 
   echo $newTime;
} while ($newTime < $endTime);

or

$startTime = strtotime('2010-05-01'); 
$endTime = strtotime('2010-05-10'); 

// Loop between timestamps, 1 day at a time 
do {
   $startTime = strtotime('+1 day',$startTime); 
   echo $startTime;
} while ($startTime < $endTime);

Answer 5

Copy from php.net sample for inclusive range:

$begin = new DateTime( '2012-08-01' );
$end = new DateTime( '2012-08-31' );
$end = $end->modify( '+1 day' ); 

$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
$daterange = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval ,$end);

foreach($daterange as $date){
    echo $date->format("Ymd") . "<br>";
}

Answer 6

User this function:-

function dateRange($first, $last, $step = '+1 day', $format = 'Y-m-d' ) {
                $dates = array();
                $current = strtotime($first);
                $last = strtotime($last);

                while( $current <= $last ) {    
                    $dates[] = date($format, $current);
                    $current = strtotime($step, $current);
                }
                return $dates;
        }

Usage / function call:-

Increase by one day:-

dateRange($start, $end); //increment is set to 1 day.

Increase by Month:-

dateRange($start, $end, "+1 month");//increase by one month

use third parameter if you like to set date format:-

   dateRange($start, $end, "+1 month", "Y-m-d H:i:s");//increase by one month and format is mysql datetime