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I am new to the world of coding as well as php and am confused by why the strtotime and mktime functions return different results e.g.
$endyear = date('Y', strtotime('+5 years')); //returns 2011 - 2015
$endyear = date('Y', mktime(0,0,0,0,0,$year+5)); //returns 2011 - 2014
EDIT
The variable $year has the value of $2011.
You’re using zeroes for the month and day arguments, this essentially means
It’s all there in the documentation – http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php