Question

I want to get future date after specific date
for this i use strtotime() function but it not work for me

then I use following code

$d1='2012-11-08';
$d2=date($d1, strtotime('+3 days'));    
echo $d2;   

output is
2012-11-08
2012-11-08

not
2012-11-11

but output is not 2012-11-11
output is 2012-11-08
i can’t solve this what is error i do and how i solve this?

Answer 1

Try using date_add

$d1 = '2012-11-08';
$d2 = date_add($d1, date_interval_create_from_date_string('3 days'));
echo $d2;

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.add.php

If you’re not running PHP 5.3, this should work:

$d1 = '2012-11-08';
$d2 = strtotime('+3 days', strtotime($d1));    
echo date('Y-m-d', $d2);