I have 2 dates in PHP, how can I run a foreach loop to go through all of those days?

Question

I'm starting with 2010-05-01 and ending with 2010-05-10... how can I iterate through all of those dates?

Answer 1

Converting to unix timestamps makes doing date math easier in php:

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

// Loop between timestamps, 24 hours at a time
for ($i = $startTime; $i <= $endTime; $i = $i + 86400) {
  $thisDate = date('Y-m-d', $i); // 2010-05-01, 2010-05-02, etc
}

Answer 2

$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 3

Requires PHP5.3:

$begin = new DateTime( '2010-05-01' );
$end = new DateTime( '2010-05-10' );

$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
$period = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval, $end);

foreach ( $period as $dt )
  echo $dt->format( "l Y-m-d H:i:s\n" );

This will output all days in the defined period between $start and $end. If you want to include the 10th, set $end to 11th. You can adjust format to your liking. See the PHP Manuel for DatePeriod.