how to get date of yesterday using php?

Question

I want to get the yesterday date using specific date format in php this is the format:

$today = date(\"d.m.Y\"); //15.04.2013

Is it possible?

Answer 1

If you define the timezone in your PHP app (as you should), which you can do this way:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

Then it's as simple as:

$yesterday = new DateTime('yesterday'); // will use our default timezone, Paris
echo $yesterday->format('Y-m-d'); // or whatever format you want

(You may want to define a constant or environment variable to store your default timezone.)