Get date of -3 days in this format YYYYMMDD

Question

I a using PHP and would like the date of third day before the script is called in the format of YYYYMMDD. How can I do this?

strtotime function in php documentation will lead you there... — Sumit Gupta, Jul 22 '14 at 06:41
Refer this link [get next and previous day](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5883571/get-next-and-previous-day-with-php) — Talk2Nit, Jul 22 '14 at 06:58

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:41

5

Try this

$result = date('Y.m.d',strtotime("-3 days"));

answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:41

rack_nilesh

rink.attendant.6 · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-22T06:50:15.763

2

$date = new \DateTime('-3 days');
echo $date->format('Ymd');

// Alternatively, store the string in a variable
$result = $date->format('Ymd');

edited Jul 22 '14 at 06:50

answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:41

rink.attendant.6

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:45

2

try this easy way

echo date('Ymd', strtotime("-3 days"));

answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:45

Satish Sharma

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:46

0

Atleast visit php.net once before such questions

<?php 
    $date  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")-3, date("Y"));
    echo date('Ymd', strtotime($date));
    ?>

answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:46

Veerendra

4 Answers4