Question

I am working on a function which adds a number of days to a date inside an incrementing variable loop. I am having a problem getting the date from the previous loop to add the next 30 days to that date. This seems to be working for the first 2 loops then breaks and I cannot figure out the correct code to get the previous dates.

Here is my code:

$pay_cycles=5;
$period=30;

 $arr = array();
 for ($i=1;$i<=$pay_cycles;$i++) {

 //if first loop get todays date
 if($i==1){
 $due = date("Y-m-d");

 //else add to previous date
 } else {
 $time = strtotime ( '+'.$period.' day' , strtotime ( $due-1 ) ) ;
 $due = date("Y-m-d", $time); 
 }
   $arr[] = $due;
 }
 print_r($arr);

This is what prints

Array ( [0] => 2010-12-30 [1] => 2011-01-29 [2] => 2011-01-29 [3] => 2011-01-29 [4] => 2011-01-29 )

Thanks for looking

Answer 1

Maybe I am not understanding your requirement completely: but to get the next 5 X 30 day periods:

$pay_cycles=5;
$period=30;

 $arr = array();
 for ($i=1;$i<=$pay_cycles;$i++) {

 //if first loop get todays date
 if($i==1){
 $due = date("Y-m-d");

 //else add to previous date
 } else {
 $time = strtotime ( "$due +$period day" ) ;
 $due = date("Y-m-d", $time); 
 }
   $arr[] = $due;
 }
 print_r($arr);

Gives:

Array
(
    [0] => 2010-12-31
    [1] => 2011-01-30
    [2] => 2011-03-01
    [3] => 2011-03-31
    [4] => 2011-04-30
)