adding 1 day to a DATETIME format value

Question

In certain situations I want to add 1 day to the value of my DATETIME formatted variable:

$start_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime("{$_GET['start_hours']}:{$_GET['start_minutes']} {$_GET['start_ampm']}"));

What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

If you want to do this in PHP:

// replace time() with the time stamp you want to add one day to
$startDate = time();
date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('+1 day', $startDate));

If you want to add the date in MySQL:

-- replace CURRENT_DATE with the date you want to add one day to
SELECT DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL 1 DAY);

Answer 2

1. Use strtotime to convert the string to a time stamp
2. Add a day to it (eg: by adding 86400 seconds (24 * 60 * 60))

eg:

$time = strtotime($myInput);
$newTime = $time + 86400;

If it's only adding 1 day, then using strtotime again is probably overkill.

Answer 3

I suggest start using Zend_Date classes from Zend Framework. I know, its a bit offtopic, but I'll like this way :-)

$date = new Zend_Date();
$date->add('24:00:00', Zend_Date::TIMES);
print $date->get();