[SOLVED] Manipulating dates

[sloth456]

so I have a date in the following format Y-m-d

 

I want the date 50 days previous to it, is there a simple way to do this?

 

The date must be returned all in numbers.

[premiso]

strtotime

 

$day_50 = strtotime($date . " -50 Days");

 

Unsure if it accepts the Y-m-d format, but if it does that would work.

[sloth456]

That didn't quite work, heres my code and the output

 

$date=date("Y-m-d");
echo "todays date ".$date."<br>";
$day_50 = strtotime($date . " -50 Days");
echo $day_50;

 

Output:

 

todays date 2009-05-08

1237420800

 

Thanks for your help so far, really appreciate the effort.

 

 

[Ken2k7]

echo date('Y-m-d', $day_50);

[sloth456]

That worked. Thanks guys!