getdate() back to the future

[rblais666]

$today = getdate()

then we have an array with all the current date

but it is possible to use the function getdate to get the date few days before?

for example: today we are tuesday august 1st, and I want to know wich date it was 5 days ago...

Thanks for your help...

[mrmufin]

There's 86400 seconds in a day, time() also returns the current UNIX timestamp, so.....

// get the date from 5 days ago:
$old_date = getdate(time() - (86400 * 5));

[Mega]

there are lots of way. one would be:

$lookup = time() - (60*60*24*5);

echo date('F l', $lookup);

obviously read up on the date function.

$today = getdate();

echo date ( 'M-d-Y', mktime (0,0,0,$today['mon'],$today['mday'] - 5,$today['year']) );

🙂