get all the dates between start date and end date in php

Question

I want to get all the dates between the start date and end date. I need to show a weekly data, and the data is split into day wise.

I have a start date as 2015-11-02 and end date as 2015-11-08. Then I need to print all the dates in between in a foreach loop.

How can I do that?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

One could use string manipulation and basic math, but months with different number of days and leap years etc make this a futile approach.

It is better to use an instance of PHP DateTime and loop through that, which is a question already answered here:

$begin = new DateTime( '2010-05-01' );
$end = new DateTime( '2010-05-10' );

$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
$period = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval, $end);

foreach ( $period as $dt )
  echo $dt->format( "l Y-m-d H:i:s\n" );

The DateTime object has the added advantage of outputting various formats, useful when generating link names, URIs, SQL queries, etc.

get all the dates between start date and end date in php

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