Date today yesterday etc

[Dean Wilson]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to get my code to display dates for today, yesterday and up to 7 days back in total. I have this code but can only make it go forward 3 days, not back. Any way I can do this?

$currentday = date('d', time());
for ( $i = $currentday; $i < $currentday+3; $i++ ){
$day = date('d', mktime('00', '00', '00', $month, $i, $year));
$date = date('j', mktime('00', '00', '00', $month, $i, $year));
echo "DAY: $date<br><br>";
} 

[DR_LaRRY_PEpPeR]

i try to avoid mktime() like the plague. no particular reason, i just don't like the "look" of it. luckily i've never had to use it.

seems like a regular time()-stamp and some math will do here. this does from 7 days in the past to 3 days in the future:

<?php

$now = time();

for ($i = -7; $i < 4; ++$i)
{
    // 86400 = seconds in a day
    $day  = date('d', $now + 86400 * $i);
    $date = date('j', $now + 86400 * $i);

    echo "DAY: $date<br /><br />\n";
}

?>

[Dean Wilson]

Thanks Larry, I did some editing with your code to get the way I needed it. I ended up with this.

$now = time(); 
for ($i = 0; $i < 7; ++$i) 
{ 
    // 86400 = seconds in a day 
    $day  = date('d', $now - 86400 * $i); 
    $date = date('j', $now - 86400 * $i); 
    echo "DAY: $date<br /><br>"; 
}