get current date and date after two months in php

Question

this is a very lame question but i m not able to find this one. How to get today\'s date and date after two months..

format is month-date-year (numerical.)

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways you could go about it - the first one would be to do something like this:

echo $currentdate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",time());    
echo $after60days = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 60);

Basically, you take the current timestamp, expressed in seconds, and add 60 * 60 * 24 * 60, which is the amount of seconds in two months.

Another way to do it, which is my preferred way and how I would do it, is this:

$after60days = strtotime("+60 days");

The outcome will be exactly the same, $after60days will have a value equal to the timestamp of the day exactly two month from now, but it uses PHP's own strtotime() function.

Of course, if you need to output a date in a format that easy to read for humans, you can do something like this:

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',$after60days);