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\")));
Simply do this...hope it help
$fifteendaysago = date_create('15 days ago'); echo date_format($fifteendaysago, 'Y-m-d');