Adding days to $Date in PHP

Question

I have a date returned as part of a mySQL query in the form 2010-09-17

I would like to set the variables $Date2 to $Date5 as follows:

$Dat

Answer 1

Here is the simplest solution to your query

$date=date_create("2013-03-15"); // or your date string
date_add($date,date_interval_create_from_date_string("40 days"));// add number of days 
echo date_format($date,"Y-m-d"); //set date format of the result