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

Another OOP method for DateTime with setting the exact hour:

$yesterday = new DateTime("yesterday 09:00:59", new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
echo $yesterday->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";