How to find out what the date was 5 days ago?

Question

Well, the following returns what date was 5 days ago:

$days_ago = date(\'Y-m-d\', mktime(0, 0, 0, date(\"m\") , date(\"d\") - 5, date(\"Y\")));

Answer 1

find out what the date was 5 days ago from today in php

$date = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-5 day")));

find out what the date was n days ago from today in php

$date = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-n day")));