Adding Months & dates with PHP

Posted by: junal on: September 22, 2007

• In: CakePHP | PHP
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Recently I had to work with Date time function for my Allomatch project. This shit was really annoying and disgusting. I thought it wouldn’t take that much time to solve the problem. But it took a lot of time. I realized somebody would get help from my solution. Because I didn’t get enough resource from the web for adding month and dates.  Well mainly I had to add months with a specific date. And I guess that was hard part for me,

Firstly, let say  you want to add few months with your current month.

And you want to add 3 more months with it.

This is how you can do it ….

$month=date (‘m’); //your current month;

$monthadded=$month+3;// 3 months added;

$gettotalmonth = mktime(0,0,0,date(“m”,0)+$monthadded, date(“d”),date(“Y”)); //use mktime function

echo $totalmonth= date(‘Y-m-d’,$gettotalmonth); //convert microtime  into date.

Your output should be: 2008-01-22

Now you can also subtract months from a specific months.  

Now, let say you want to add dates with a given date. This is how I solved my problem.

Let say …..

$date = ‘2007-09-22’;

$ya = explode(‘-‘,$date);

echo $addeddate =  date(‘Y-m-d’,mktime(0, 0, 0, $ya[1], $ya[2], $ya[0]) + (1 * 24 * 60 * 60)); //adding 1 day.

Output should be: 2007-09-23

Now I guess you can also add year as well. :)