Adding days to $Date in PHP

Question

I have a date returned as part of a mySQL query in the form 2010-09-17

I would like to set the variables $Date2 to $Date5 as follows:

$Dat

Answer 1

From PHP 5.2 on you can use modify with a DateTime object:

http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.modify.php

$Date1 = '2010-09-17';
$date = new DateTime($Date1);
$date->modify('+1 day');
$Date2 = $date->format('Y-m-d');

Be careful when adding months... (and to a lesser extent, years)

Answer 2

All you have to do is use days instead of day like this:

<?php
$Date = "2010-09-17";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($Date. ' + 1 days'));
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($Date. ' + 2 days'));
?>

And it outputs correctly:

2010-09-18
2010-09-19

Answer 3

Using a variable for Number of days

$myDate = "2014-01-16";
$nDays = 16;
$newDate = strtotime($myDate . '+ '.$nDays.'days');
echo new Date('d/m/Y', $soma); //format new date