adding one month to date using strtotime error with formatting php

Question

Somebody please help me to format the date. I'm not familiar with date formatting. I want to increment the date by one month but i get this error:

"A non well formed numeric value encountered"

$bseDate=$_POST['lastBseDate']; //this will return 2014-04-03
$nextBse = date('y-m-d', strtotime("+1 month", $bsedate));

possible duplicate of [A non well formed numeric value encountered](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6136430/a-non-well-formed-numeric-value-encountered) — αƞjiβ, Apr 29 '15 at 17:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 29 '15 at 17:58

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Use Datetime() for all date manipulation as it takes Daylight Savings Time and more into consideration and is more readable and maintainable.

$nextBse = (new DateTime($_POST['lastBseDate']))->modify('+1 month')->format('y-m-d');

answered Apr 29 '15 at 17:58

John Conde

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '15 at 17:59

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To answer your question, strtotime gives a timestamp from a string, but since you are providing the optional base time it needs to be a timestamp as well:

$nextBse = date('y-m-d', strtotime("+1 month", strtotime($bseDate)));

answered Apr 29 '15 at 17:59

AbraCadaver

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adding one month to date using strtotime error with formatting php

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