get next and previous day with PHP

Question

I have got two arrows set up, click for next day, next two days, soon and previous day, two days ago, soon. the code seem not working? as it only get one next and previous day.

<a href="home.php?date=<?= date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 day', strtotime($date))) ?>" class="prev_day" title="Previous Day" ></a> 
<a href="home.php?date=<?= date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day', strtotime($date))) ?>" class="next_day" title="Next Day" ></a>

is there a way if i click the next button, the date will continously change for the next day. for a moment it will only get one day ahead

Your code creates one link for the next day and one for previous day. What is your question? — Gordon, May 04 '11 at 12:46
sorry for unclear question! if, you click next day button, it will show the 'next day date', then if you click again, it will show the 'next two days date'... — tonoslfx, May 04 '11 at 12:48
@Alan Nope: `int strtotime ( string $time [, int $now ] )` See http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php — Gordon, May 04 '11 at 12:51
@boyee what happens when you use `$_GET['date']` instead of `$date`? — Gordon, May 04 '11 at 12:59
@Gordon: `$date is for todays date`. `$_GET['date']` use to get report base on the date. let say, if u click next, it will get for tmr date `2011-05-04`, if click again `2011-05-05`, again `2011-05-06` soon.... — tonoslfx, May 04 '11 at 13:02
@boyee that doesnt answer my question. What happens when you use $_GET['date'] instead of $date? The second argument to strtotime is the timestamp from which relative dates will be calculated so when you pass in today's date it will of course only do tomorrow and yesterday. You have to pass in the date from the query string to have it give the date after the next day or the day before yesterday. If $date is always todays date it cannot work. — Gordon, May 04 '11 at 13:05
@Gordon. Apologies I have always used one parameter, `strtotime('2011-05-03 -1 day')` Everyday is a school day! — Alan Whitelaw, May 04 '11 at 13:07
@Gordon: thanks i know what u mean :) so i just change the $date to $_GET['date']. — tonoslfx, May 04 '11 at 13:08
...and what about a NICE&&MODERN way? : `(new DateTime('now+1day'))->format('Y-m-d')` ...that is tomorrow :) You can guess how would it look for yesterday... :) — jave.web, Apr 13 '16 at 01:05

score 250 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:46

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date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day', strtotime($date)))

Should read

date('Y-m-d', strtotime(' +1 day'))

Update to answer question asked in comment about continuously changing the date.

<?php
$date = isset($_GET['date']) ? $_GET['date'] : date('Y-m-d');
$prev_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date .' -1 day'));
$next_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date .' +1 day'));
?>

<a href="?date=<?=$prev_date;?>">Previous</a>
<a href="?date=<?=$next_date;?>">Next</a>

This will increase and decrease the date by one from the date you are on at the time.

edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:46

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answered May 04 '11 at 12:47

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thanks. is there a way if i click the next button, the date will continously change for the next day, if u know what i mean. for a moment it will only get 1 day ahead – tonoslfx May 04 '11 at 12:52
$date=date('Y-m-d'); echo date($date,strtotime('-1 days')); its not give previous date. IT display only current date. How to solve this? – Apr 17 '14 at 12:11
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date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day', strtotime($date))) is fine. That allows you to feed in the date you are calculating from, rather than the current date. – Keith Grey Oct 24 '16 at 18:53

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '16 at 12:17

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Simply use this

echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime("yesterday"));
echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime("tomorrow"));

answered Oct 25 '16 at 12:17

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Erald Karakashi · Answer 3 · 2015-06-12T08:41:45.100

Requirement: PHP 5 >= 5.2.0

You should make use of the DateTime and DateInterval classes in Php, and things will turn to be very easy and readable.

Example: Lets get the previous day.

// always make sure to have set your default timezone
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');

// create DateTime instance, holding the current datetime
$datetime = new DateTime();

// create one day interval
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');

// modify the DateTime instance
$datetime->sub($interval);

// display the result, or print_r($datetime); for more insight 
echo $datetime->format('Y-m-d');


/** 
* TIP:
* if you dont want to change the default timezone, use
* use the DateTimeZone class instead.
*
* $myTimezone = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin');
* $datetime->setTimezone($myTimezone); 
*
* or just include it inside the constructor 
* in this form new DateTime("now",   $myTimezone);
*/

References: Modern PHP, New Features and Good Practices By Josh Lockhart

DateInterval is not actually intended for this purpose :) , you can just do `(new DateTime('now+1day'))->format('Y-m-d')` — jave.web, Apr 13 '16 at 01:03

score 6 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 18 '12 at 19:28

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Use

$time = time();

For previous day -

date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,date("n", $time),date("j",$time)- 1 ,date("Y", $time)));

For 2 days ago

date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,date("n", $time),date("j",$time) -2 ,date("Y", $time)));

For Next day -

date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,date("n", $time),date("j",$time)+ 1 ,date("Y", $time)));

For next 2 days

date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,date("n", $time),date("j",$time) +2 ,date("Y", $time)));

edited Sep 18 '12 at 19:28

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answered May 04 '11 at 12:51

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Are you sure this works in edge cases? For example if the current day is 31th. What will happen when you try to get +1? – Pavel Nikolov Jan 09 '13 at 12:55
@PavelNikolov Look at the [mktime() example #2](http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php). "Wrong inputs" like "32" are allowed. – mgutt Apr 03 '15 at 12:15

score 4 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 24 '13 at 04:19

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it is enough to call it this way:

<a href="home.php?date=<?= date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 day')) ?>" class="prev_day" title="Previous Day" ></a>
<a href="home.php?date=<?= date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day')) ?>" class="next_day" title="Next Day" ></a>

Also see the documentation.

edited Jan 24 '13 at 04:19

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answered May 04 '11 at 12:46

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Alex Joe · Answer 6 · 2018-09-21T11:03:43.310

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You could use 'now' as string to get today's/tomorrow's/yesterday's date:

$previousDay = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('now - 1day'));
$toDay       = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('now'));
$nextDay     = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('now + 1day'));

edited Sep 21 '18 at 11:03

answered Sep 21 '18 at 10:50

Alex Joe

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`'now' !== 'today'`. You could use `$previousDay = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('today - 1 day'));` – Елин Й. May 23 '22 at 09:12

score 3 · Answer 7 · edited Dec 08 '11 at 11:26

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strtotime('-1 day', strtotime($date))

This returns the number of difference in seconds of the given date and the $date.so you are getting wrong result .

Suppose $date is todays date and -1 day means it returns -86400 as the difference and the when you try using date you will get 1969-12-31 Unix timestamp start date.

edited Dec 08 '11 at 11:26

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answered May 04 '11 at 12:57

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score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Jan 28 '17 at 04:11

always make sure to have set your default timezone

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');

create DateTime instance, holding the current datetime

$datetime = new DateTime();

create one day interval

$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');

modify the DateTime instance

$datetime->sub($interval);

display the result, or print_r($datetime); for more insight

echo $datetime->format('Y-m-d');

TIP:

If you don't want to change the default timezone, use the DateTimeZone class instead.

$myTimezone = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin');
$datetime->setTimezone($myTimezone);

or just include it inside the constructor in this form new DateTime("now", $myTimezone);

score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Oct 08 '15 at 14:26

Php script -1****its to Next Date

<?php

$currentdate=date('Y-m-d');


$date_arr=explode('-',$currentdate);


$next_date=
Date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,$date_arr[1],$date_arr[2]+1,$date_arr[0]));



echo $next_date;
?>**

**Php script -1****its to Next year**


<?php

$currentdate=date('Y-m-d');


$date_arr=explode('-',$currentdate);


$next_date=
Date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,$date_arr[1],$date_arr[2],$date_arr[0]+1));



echo $next_date;
?>

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 23 '16 at 04:40

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just in case if you want next day or previous day from today's date

date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"),date("d")-1,date("Y")));

just change the "-1" to the "+1" regards, Yosafat

answered Aug 23 '16 at 04:40

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 23 '20 at 14:44

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Very easy with the dateTime() object, too.

$tomorrow = new DateTime('tomorrow');
echo $tomorrow->format("Y-m-d"); // Tomorrow's date

$yesterday = new DateTime('yesterday');
echo $yesterday->format("Y-m-d"); // Yesterday's date

answered Jul 23 '20 at 14:44

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Jun 02 '23 at 20:26

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$Day_seconds = 86400;

$next_day = $day_timestamp + $Day_seconds;
$prev_day = $day_timestamp - $Day_seconds;

answered Jun 02 '23 at 20:26

Jamel Zarga

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This unexplained snippet is not reliably true when daylight savings is a potential factor. – mickmackusa Jun 02 '23 at 22:13

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