[SOLVED] Adding days/weeks to a date

[joesaddigh]

Hi,

 

I am having a problem which i think is probably quite simple to solve but I cant seem to do it.

 

I am trying to add weeks or days to a date (not todays date)

 

I have a date variable and I want to add a duration variable to it>

 

The code I have is as follows.

 

 

echo 'The original date is ' . $sqldate;
                        	
                        	echo '<br />';
                        	echo '<br />';
                        	
                        	$sqldate = strtotime("+2 days");
                        	echo 'The new date is ' . $sqldate = date($sqldate);

 

$sqldate contains this value 2009-08-17

 

Thanks

[Daniel0]

Simply do like

strtotime($sqldate . ' +2 days');

 

The variable you pass to it must of course be a valid date for strtotime.

[joesaddigh]

Ok that works but I want to keep it as a date and add two days to it is that possible. If not how could I then turn the string back to a date format as a specified Y-mm-dd

 

Cheers

[Daniel0]

strtotime() will return a UNIX timestamp. You can use date to (re)format it.

 

So that would be:

date('Y-m-d', strtotime($sqldate . ' +2 days'));

[joesaddigh]

THANKS!! Works perfect. Should have got that one but appreciate your help very much!