Add number of days to a date

Question

Hi,

I want to add number of days to current date: I am using following code:

$i=30;
echo $date = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date)) . " +".$i."days");

But instead of getting proper date i am getting this: 2592000

Please help me on this

Thanks,

Pankaj

Answer 1

This should be

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+30 days"));

strtotime

expects to be given a string containing a US English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if now is not supplied.

while date

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given.

See the manual pages for

• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

and their function signatures.

Answer 2

Keep in mind, the change of clock changes because of daylight saving time might give you some problems when only calculating the days.

Here's a little php function which takes care of that:

function add_days($date, $days) {
    $timeStamp = strtotime(date('Y-m-d',$date));
    $timeStamp+= 24 * 60 * 60 * $days;

    // ...clock change....
    if (date("I",$timeStamp) != date("I",$date)) {
        if (date("I",$date)=="1") { 
            // summer to winter, add an hour
            $timeStamp+= 60 * 60; 
        } else {
            // summer to winter, deduct an hour
            $timeStamp-= 60 * 60;           
        } // if
    } // if
    $cur_dat = mktime(0, 0, 0, 
                      date("n", $timeStamp), 
                      date("j", $timeStamp), 
                      date("Y", $timeStamp)
                     ); 
    return $cur_dat;
}

Answer 3

You could use the DateTime class built in PHP. It has a method called "add", and how it is used is thoroughly demonstrated in the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.add.php

It however requires PHP 5.3.0.

Answer 4

You could also try:

$date->modify("+30 days");