Subtracting a certain number of hours, days, months or years from date

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple function which returns me a date with a certain number of subtracted days from now, so something like this but I dont know the date classes we

Answer 1

Try to use datetime::sub

Example from the docs (linked):

format("d-m-Y H:i:s").'
';

date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5D"));
echo '
'.$date->format("d-m-Y").' : 5 Days';

date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5Y5M5D"));
echo '
'.$date->format("d-m-Y").' : 5 Days, 5 Months, 5 Years';

date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5YT5H"));
echo '
'.$date->format("d-m-Y H:i:s").' : 5 Years, 5 Hours';

?>