Increase current date by 5 days

Question

$date = date(\'Y-m-d\',current_time(\'timestamp\', 0));

How do I change $date to $date + 5 days?

PHP version is 5

Answer 1

For specific date:

$date = '2011-11-01';
$date_plus = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date.'+5 days'));
echo $date.'
'.$date_plus;

It will be give :

2011-11-01
2011-11-06