Get the timestamp of exactly one week ago in PHP?

Question

I need to calculate the timestamp of exactly 7 days ago using PHP, so if it\'s currently March 25th at 7:30pm, it would return the timestamp for March 18th at 7:30pm.

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Answer 1

From PHP 5.2 you can use DateTime:

$timestring="2015-03-25";
$datetime=new DateTime($timestring);
$datetime->modify('-7 day');
echo $datetime->format("Y-m-d"); //2015-03-18

Instead of creating DateTime with string, you can setTimestamp directly on object:

$timestamp=1427241600;//2015-03-25
$datetime=new DateTime();
$datetime->setTimestamp($timestamp);
$datetime->modify('-7 day');
echo $datetime->format("Y-m-d"); //2015-03-18

Answer 2

strtotime("-1 week")

Answer 3

http://php.net/strtotime

echo strtotime("-1 week");

Answer 4

There is the following example on PHP.net

<?php
  $nextWeek = time() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60);
               // 7 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60secs
  echo 'Now:       '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";
  echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', $nextWeek) ."\n";
  // or using strtotime():
  echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 week')) ."\n";
?>

Changing + to - on the first (or last) line will get what you want.

Answer 5

strtotime is your friend

echo strtotime("-1 week");

Answer 6

<?php 
   $before_seven_day = $date_timestamp - (7 * 24 * 60 * 60)
   // $date_timestamp is the date from where you found to find out the timestamp.
?>

you can also use the string to time function for converting the date to timestamp. like

strtotime(23-09-2013);