simplest way of generating random dates ?

steamPunk

I was wondering what's the simplest way of generating random dates using

$comm_date = date("Y-m-d");

ideally it would be a random date within a range of dates from today to today+30

i can do the random part to get n but i don't know how to get the date today+n

what's the simplest way of doing that ?

thanks

wilku

I suppose this could do the trick:

//assuming $n is randomly generated number of days from today
$comm_date = date("Y-m-d",strtotime("now + $n days"));
//or
$comm_date = date("Y-m-d",time() +  $n*24*60*60));

steamPunk

that looks perfect

thanks !

NogDog

If you like having everything in one line, you could add the random number generation to Wilku's first suggestion:

$comm_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+ ' . rand(0, 30) . ' days'));