How to print all days between two dates

Question

below is my php code to display all date between two dates..but not working properly...

fromdate = 20-04-2015
todate =   25-05-2015

so my code display only 20,21,22,23,24,25

but i need all days between this two months.

expected output

20-04 21-04 22-04 23-04 24-04 25-04 26-04 27-04 28-04  ......upto 25-05

below is my code..

 <?php
    $startdate = $_POST['fromdate'];
    $enddate = $_POST['todate'];
    $start = date('d', strtotime($startdate));
    $end=date('d', strtotime($enddate));
    ?>  

    <?php   for ($x = $start; $x <= $end; $x++) { ?>
        <th width="58%"><?php echo $x; ?></th>
        <?php } ?>

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

9

Using strtotime() and date() for traversing dates is not recommended because it is hackish at best. Use DateTime to iterate dates instead:

$start    = new DateTime('20-04-2015');
$end      = (new DateTime('25-05-2015'))->modify('+1 day');
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
$period   = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

foreach ($period as $dt) {
    echo $dt->format("d-m") . "<br>\n";
}

Demo

For PHP < 5.4 (echo phpversion();), which doesn't support array dereferencing:

Demo

The above code creates DateTime objects for the start and end date. We have to add one day to the end date as it will not be included in our loop later on. It then creates a DateInterval object to represent the increment of one day and a DatePeriod object to contain it all. It then loops through each date and echos out the date in the format you expect.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered May 19 '15 at 13:40

John Conde

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wow, such good explanations are sadly pretty rare on SO. *Love it!* – Rizier123 May 19 '15 at 13:51
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in $end = (new DateTime('25-05-2015'))->modify('+1 day'); – ankit ingle May 19 '15 at 13:57
What version of PHP are you running? – John Conde May 19 '15 at 13:59
PHP/5.3.5 version of PHP – ankit ingle May 19 '15 at 14:06
@ankitingle See the demo in the answer for PHP versions under < 5.4, where [array dereferencing](http://stackoverflow.com/q/742764/3933332) is not supported – Rizier123 May 19 '15 at 14:14
@JohnConde If you think my edit was too major, just do a rollback :) (Just wanted to put the references in with the manual links and example for PHP < 5.4) – Rizier123 May 19 '15 at 14:19

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