Question

I need to populate a table with a row for each day over the past 5 years?

E.g
1. 04/11/2012
2. 03/11/2012
3. 02/11/2012
4. 01/11/2012
5. 31/10/2012
6. etc

This will just be a php script that I run once and inserts all of the records.

The reason for doing this is for performance testing my other code with enough data in the database.

Answer 1

This will give you the date-format you want:

date('d/m/Y', strtotime($i." days"));

$i is the number of days past/ahead of this date. So if $i is -1 that means one day ago. I guess you could make a loop of it, decreasing/increasing $i.