HOw to add specific noumber of days to date stored in a variable

Question

I am fetching date from database and stored it in a variable called $lastRequest[1]. Now I need to add certain number of days which are stored in variable $licChkFreq to the date stored in $lastRequest[1].

I am using this code:

$nextRequest=$newExp = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($lastRequest[1])) . " +".$licChkFreq." day");
$nextRequest=date("Y-m-d",$nextRequest);

So if i understood you correctly, you want to add dates, is that right? — Realitätsverlust, Dec 11 '13 at 13:11
Use days instead of day. Answered here already. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3727615/adding-days-to-date-in-php — Daniel Harper, Dec 11 '13 at 13:12
if i have the following values $lastRequest[1]=2013-12-11 , $licChkFreq=7 I get following nextRequest=601200 and 2nd time nextRequest=1970-01-08 though it should be 2013-12-18 — user3068213, Dec 11 '13 at 13:17

The Humble Rat · Answer 1 · 2013-12-11T13:44:48.343

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Try the following, this should give you what you need.

$newDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($lastRequest[1] . " +" . $licChkFreq ." days"));

This is the code I tested with

$lastRequest[1] = '2013-12-11';
$licChkFreq = 7;

$newDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($lastRequest[1] . " +" . $licChkFreq ." days"));

echo $newDate;

edited Dec 11 '13 at 13:44

answered Dec 11 '13 at 13:30

The Humble Rat

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still getting previous date 1970-01-01 – user3068213 Dec 11 '13 at 13:38
while if i run only this code it gives correct output. – user3068213 Dec 11 '13 at 13:39
Please see my update and test the code I tried with also. If the above works but when using the actual variables it doesn't, then there must be something with those variables that is causing an issue. I would maybe check each variable one by one, ie take my code and feed the `$lastRequest[1]` in first, then the `$licChkFreq`. I would also try `echo date('Y-m-d');` to see what date your server says it is. But can guarantee this is working for me. – The Humble Rat Dec 11 '13 at 13:47
The code given by you works if i explicitly define the of $lastRequest[1] and $licChkFreq but if i fetch the values from database it does not work. But i checked that it fetches correct values from database by echoing them on screen. – user3068213 Dec 11 '13 at 13:55
I added trim function while fetching values from database and it worked. Maybe it was also fetching whitespace from the database along with the value. – user3068213 Dec 11 '13 at 14:12
Yeah I figured something like that was going on, glad you got it working. – The Humble Rat Dec 12 '13 at 08:09

HOw to add specific noumber of days to date stored in a variable

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