Question

I’m trying to create a simple function which returns me a date with a certain number of subtracted days from now, so something like this but I dont know the date classes well:

<?
function get_offset_hours ($hours) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") /*and now?*/));
}

function get_offset_days ($days) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") /*and now?*/));
}

function get_offset_months ($months) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") /*and now?*/));
}

function get_offset_years ($years) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") + $years));
}

print get_offset_years (-30);
?>

Is it possible to do something similar to this?
this kind of function works for years, but how to do the same with other time types?

Answer 1

For hours:

function get_offset_hours($hours)
{
    return date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() + 3600 * $hours);
}

Something like that will work well for hours and days (use 86400 for days), but for months and year it’s a bit trickier…

Also you can also do it this way:

$date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' +1 day');
$date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' +1 week');
$date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' +2 weeks');
$date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' +1 month');
$date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' +30 days');
$date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' +1 year');

echo(date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $date));