Create an Array of the Last 30 Days Using PHP

Question

I am trying to create an array starting with today and going back the last 30 days with PHP and I am having trouble. I can estimate but I don’t know a good way of doing it and taking into account the number of days in the previous month etc. Does anyone have a good solution? I can’t get close but I need to make sure it is 100% accurate.

Answer 1

Try this:

<?php    
$d = array();
for($i = 0; $i < 30; $i++) 
    $d[] = date("d", strtotime('-'. $i .' days'));
?>

Answer 2

You can use time to control the days:

for ($i = 0; $i < 30; i++)
{
    $timestamp = time();
    $tm = 86400 * $i; // 60 * 60 * 24 = 86400 = 1 day in seconds
    $tm = $timestamp - $tm;

    $the_date = date("m/d/Y", $tm);
}

Now, within the for loop you can use the $the_date variable for whatever purposes you might want to. :-)

Answer 3

thanks a lot.... :)