increment the date

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Simplest way to increment a date in PHP?

I am very new to php. I have the current date and I want to increment the date day by day. I don't have any end condition. I want to increment the date day by day for 4 years or so. There should not be a ending for that. I don't have any other data's like end date, start date. I want to increment the current date one by one using any loop. If anyone knows please help me.

please use the search function before littering StackOverflow with superfluous duplicates. How to increment dates has been asked a hundred times before and we do not want any more of these questions. — Gordon, Dec 01 '11 at 11:59

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:22

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$i = 1;
while (your condition here)
{
   echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+' . $i++ . ' day'));
}

answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:22

matino

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:43

As you can see, there are many ways to add a day to the current date. The other answers are simpler and quite valid, but the object oriented way is to use DateTime::add.

<?php
$date = new DateTime();
$date->add(new DateInterval('P1D'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";
?>

It may seem daunting at first glance, but the benefit I’ve found is that DateTime, DateInterval, and DateTimeZone make the quirkiness of timezones and intervals much easier to handle.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:19

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A day is 86400 seconds, so you can simply take the current time() and do +86400.

echo 'Tomorrow it\'s '.date('d-m-Y', time()+86400);

answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:19

Tom van der Woerdt

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until you hit DST and all of a sudden tomorrow is still today – Gordon Dec 01 '11 at 11:58
That's why you should always try to use noon :-) You make a good point though – Tom van der Woerdt Dec 01 '11 at 11:59

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:20

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You can use the function strtotime for that, like this:

for ($i= 1; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $date = strtotime("+$i day", strtotime("2011-12-01"));
    echo date("Y-m-d", $date);
}

answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:20

Rafael Steil

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thank u very much.Its very good idea.very help full to beginer. – Nithin Dec 01 '11 at 11:48

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:24

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Try mktime(). Refer below example for Current Date after 4 years.

   echo date('m-d-Y',  mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d'), date('Y')+4));

more details about mktime() is here http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php

answered Dec 01 '11 at 11:24

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