In this article, we will see how to subtract days from the given date object in PHP.
There are two methods to subtract the date from the given date, these are:
Using PHP date_sub() function
The date_sub() function is used to subtract some days, months, years, hours, minutes, and seconds from the given date. The function returns a DateTime object on success and returns FALSE on failure.
Syntax:
date_sub($object, $interval)
Example: This examples uses date_sub() function to subtract days from date in PHP.
<?php // Create a date object $date = date_create( '2023-10-25' );
date_sub( $date , date_interval_create_from_date_string( '10 days' ));
echo date_format( $date , 'Y-m-d' ) . "\n" ;
// Create a date object (Current Date) $date = date_create();
date_sub( $date , date_interval_create_from_date_string( '12 days' ));
echo date_format( $date , 'Y-m-d' ). "\n" ;
?> |
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Using subtraction and PHP strtotime() function
The strtotime() function is used to convert an English textual date-time description to a UNIX timestamp. The function returns the time in seconds since the Unix Epoch. It can return the English textual date-time in date format using the PHP date() function.
Syntax:
$newDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date. ' - N days'))
Example: THis example uses subtraction and PHP strtotime() function to subtract days from date.
<?php // Store the date into a variable $date = '2023-10-25' ;
$newDate = date ( 'Y-m-d' , strtotime ( $date . ' - 10 days' ));
echo $newDate . "\n" ;
// Create a date object (Current Date) $newDate = date ( 'Y-m-d' , strtotime ( ' - 12 days' ));
echo $newDate ;
?> |
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