Dates /Day help

[Anon]

Can i use php to find out like for example the date and day x days ago from now (current date)?

any code to do that would be much appreciated

[mithril]

Yup, you need to use timestamps. Look in the Date/Time Functions section of the manual for more info..... it's very well explained there.

$numDays = 5;
$then = mktime() - (86400*$numDays);
echo date("Y-m-d", $then);

BTW, 86400 is the number of seconds in 24 hours.

-geoff