How to generate random date between two dates using php?

Question

I am coding an application where i need to assign random date between two fixed timestamps

how i can achieve this using php i\'ve searched first but only found the a

Answer 1

An other solution where we can use date_format :

 /**
 * Method to generate random date between two dates
 * @param $sStartDate
 * @param $sEndDate
 * @param string $sFormat
 * @return bool|string
 */

function randomDate($sStartDate, $sEndDate, $sFormat = 'Y-m-d H:i:s') {
    // Convert the supplied date to timestamp
    $fMin = strtotime($sStartDate);
    $fMax = strtotime($sEndDate);
    // Generate a random number from the start and end dates
    $fVal = mt_rand($fMin, $fMax);
    // Convert back to the specified date format
    return date($sFormat, $fVal);
}

Source : https://gist.github.com/samcrosoft/6550473

You could use for example :

$date_random = randomDate('2018-07-09 00:00:00','2018-08-27 00:00:00');