Adding three months to a date in PHP

Question

I have a variable called $effectiveDate containing the date 2012-03-26.

I am trying to add three months to this date and have been unsu

Answer 1

The following should work, but you may need to change the format:

echo date('l F jS, Y (m-d-Y)', strtotime('+3 months', strtotime($DateToAdjust)));

Answer 2

I assume by "didn't work" you mean that it's giving you a timestamp instead of the formatted date, because you were doing it correctly:

$effectiveDate = strtotime("+3 months", strtotime($effectiveDate)); // returns timestamp
echo date('Y-m-d',$effectiveDate); // formatted version

Answer 3

Change it to this will give you the expected format:

$effectiveDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+3 months", strtotime($effectiveDate)));