Adding three months to a date in PHP

Question

I have a variable called $effectiveDate containing the date 2012-03-26.

I am trying to add three months to this date and have been unsu

Answer 1

Tchoupi's answer can be made a tad less verbose by concatenating the argument for strtotime() as follows:

$effectiveDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($effectiveDate . "+3 months") );

(This relies on magic implementation details, but you can always go have a look at them if you're rightly mistrustful.)