PHP date help

[c_pattle]

I have a variable that stored the date

 

$date = date("Y-m-d");

 

If I want to deduct or add days to this so I get a date in the past or future is there an easy way to do this or do I have to convert it to a timestamp then convert it back etc?

[Psycho]

See the manual for strtotime(): http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

 

Here is a quick example of how you could get the date 5 days in the future of the $date value

//Longform
$newDateTimestamp = strtotime("$date +5 days");
$newDateString = date("Y-m-d", $newDateTimestamp);

//Shortform
$newDateString = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("$date +5 days"));