Question

I am feeling a bit thick today and maybe a little tired..

I am trying to add days on to a string date…

$startdate = "18/7/2011";

$enddate = date(strtotime($startdate) . " +1 day");
echo $startdate;
echo $enddate;

My heads not with it… where am i going wrong ?

Thanks

Lee

Answer 1

Either

$enddate = date(strtotime("+1 day", strtotime($startdate)));

or

$enddate = date(strtotime($startdate . "+1 day"));

should work. However, neither is working with the 18/7/2011 date. They work fine with 7/18/2011: http://codepad.viper-7.com/IDS0gI . Might be some localization problem.

In the first way, using the second parameter to strtotime says to add one day relative to that date. In the second way, strtotime figures everything out. But apparently only if the date is in the USA’s date format, or in the other format using dashes: http://codepad.viper-7.com/SKJ49r