how to get date of yesterday using php?

Question

I want to get the yesterday date using specific date format in php this is the format:

$today = date(\"d.m.Y\"); //15.04.2013

Is it possible?

Answer 1

you can do this by

date("F j, Y", time() - 60 * 60 * 24);

or by

date("F j, Y", strtotime("yesterday"));