Increase current date by 5 days

Question

$date = date(\'Y-m-d\',current_time(\'timestamp\', 0));

How do I change $date to $date + 5 days?

PHP version is 5

Answer 1

strtotime() is very nice. It allows you to do the following:

$startDate = 'now'; // or choose a certain date you want/have
$startDate = '2013-02-14';
$intervals = array(
    '', 
    '+ 5 days', 
    '+ 31 days', 
    '+ 3 months', 
    '+ 2 years + 2 days'
); 
foreach($intervals as $interval) {
    $combinedDate = $startDate . ' ' . $interval;
    var_dump($combinedDate . ' => ' date('Y-m-d', strtotime($combinedDate)));
}

with a result:

now => 1360334498 = 2013-02-08

now + 5 days => 1360766498 = 2013-02-13

now + 31 days => 1363012898 = 2013-03-11

now + 3 months => 1368020498 = 2013-05-08

now + 2 years + 2 days => 1423579298 = 2015-02-10

or:

2013-02-14 => 1360792800 = 2013-02-14

2013-02-14 + 5 days => 1361224800 = 2013-02-19

2013-02-14 + 31 days => 1363471200 = 2013-03-17

2013-02-14 + 3 months => 1368478800 = 2013-05-14

2013-02-14 + 2 years + 2 days => 1424037600 = 2015-02-16