Subtract 1 day with PHP

Question

I\'m trying to take a date object that\'s coming out of my Drupal CMS, subtract one day and print out both dates. Here\'s what I have

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Answer 1

How to add 1 year to a date and then subtract 1 day from it in asp.net c#

Convert.ToDateTime(txtDate.Value.Trim()).AddYears(1).AddDays(-1);

Answer 2

Answear taken from Php manual strtotime function comments :

echo date( "Y-m-d", strtotime( "2009-01-31 -1 day"));

Or

$date = "2009-01-31";
echo date( "Y-m-d", strtotime( $date . "-1 day"));

Answer 3

A one-liner option is:

echo date_create('2011-04-24')->modify('-1 days')->format('Y-m-d');

Running it on Online PHP Editor.

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mktime alternative

If you prefer to avoid using string methods, or going into calculations, or even creating additional variables, mktime supports subtraction and negative values in the following way:

// Today's date
echo date('Y-m-d'); // 2016-03-22

// Yesterday's date
echo date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")-1, date("Y"))); // 2016-03-21

// 42 days ago
echo date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")-42, date("Y"))); // 2016-02-09

//Using a previous date object
$date_object = new DateTime('2011-04-24');
echo date('Y-m-d',
  mktime(0, 0, 0,
     $date_object->format("m"),
     $date_object->format("d")-1,
     $date_object->format("Y")
    )
); // 2011-04-23

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Answer 4

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