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Filippo oretti
Filippo oretti

Reputation: 49817

PHP - Sum time to current time, best practice

Hi i'm trying to sum time with the current date time, this code seems to work:

$now = time();
$_day = strtotime('+1day',$now);
$_week = strtotime('+7day',$now);
$_month = strtotime('+1month',$now);
$_year = strtotime('+1year',$now);

what i'm wondering is if is there any other way , maybe better way of doing this .. can anyone show me new ways and the reasons why i should turn to another syntax? I would like to do this more accurate as possible, so if i can reflect this script it is great!

thanks

EDIT:

just to be clear i need to use unix timestamps i don't need formatted dates/datetimes

Upvotes: 3

Views: 735

Answers (3)

RDK
RDK

Reputation: 4560

Try this solution:

date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 day"));
date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+7 days"));
date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 month"));
date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 year"));

Upvotes: 0

Ruslan Polutsygan
Ruslan Polutsygan

Reputation: 4461

If PHP version you use allows (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0) you to use DateTime and DateInterval classes, you coud use them.

example:

$dateTime=new DateTime();
$plusDay=new DateInterval('P1D');
var_dump($dateTime->add($plusDay));

$dateTime=new DateTime();
$plusWeek=new DateInterval('P1W');
var_dump($dateTime->add($plusWeek));

$dateTime=new DateTime();
$plusMonth=new DateInterval('P1M');
var_dump($dateTime->add($plusMonth));

I hope this is helpful.

Upvotes: 2

Jonah Bishop
Jonah Bishop

Reputation: 12581

I believe that strtotime() is as simple as you're going to get in PHP. All 3 of the answers to this SO question chose to use that syntax, and all of the various tutorials I see around the web use it. strtotime() makes thinking about date arithmetic a lot easier than other approaches.

Upvotes: 1

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