Question

I am currently working on a calender script for my personal use. Therefore I need your help 🙂

I have two dates in format YYYY-MM-DD.

for example:

2012-05-12 and
2012-05-16

What I need is the dates between them:

2012-05-13
2012-05-14
2012-05-15

The output should be in an array. I dont now how to start anyway… so do u have a hint?

Answer 1

function getDates($startTime, $endTime) {
    $day = 86400;
    $format = 'Y-m-d';
    $startTime = strtotime($startTime);
    $endTime = strtotime($endTime);
    //$numDays = round(($endTime - $startTime) / $day) + 1;
    $numDays = round(($endTime - $startTime) / $day); // remove increment 

    $days = array();

    for ($i = 1; $i < $numDays; $i++) { //change $i to 1
        $days[] = date($format, ($startTime + ($i * $day)));
    }

    return $days;
}

$days = getDates('2012-05-12', '2012-05-16');

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => 2012-05-13
    [1] => 2012-05-14
    [2] => 2012-05-15
)

As Dan Lee said, I changed the function to get only the date interval, excluding the first and last day from array.