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Increase days to php current Date()

Asked 2008-11-10T06:59:24.197
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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

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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;
}
?>

answered 2008-11-10T07:11:23.643
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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

answered 2012-12-25T03:28:18.737

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