How to get Previous date in PHP

Imagine you’re working on a PHP project and trying to get the Previous date to calculate data. you can get the previous date by using the DateTime class or with the strtotime function.

Here are two common methods:

How to get yesterday and tomorrow dates in PHP

Method 1: DateTime class in PHP

Using the DateTime class in PHP is a powerful and flexible way to handle dates and times

 
 $date = new DateTime(); // Create a new DateTime object for the current date and time
$date->modify('-1 day'); // Subtract one day
$previousDate = $date->format('Y-m-d'); // Format the date as YYYY-MM-DD
echo $previousDate;

 
 

Output:

Get Tomorrow/Next date in php

To get tomorrow's date in PHP simply change the modify method to add one day. like below

 
$date = new DateTime(); // Create a new DateTime object for the current date and time
$date->modify('+1 day'); // Subtract one day
$previousDate = $date->format('Y-m-d'); // Format the date as YYYY-MM-DD
echo $previousDate;

 
 

Using a Specific Date:

If you want to get the Previous or tomorrow's date from a specific date, you need to change the DateTime(); method.

 
$date = new DateTime('2024-10-10'); // Example specific date
$date->modify('+1 day'); // Subtract one day
$previousDate = $date->format('Y-m-d'); // Format the date as YYYY-MM-DD
echo $previousDate;

 
 

Method 2: Using strtotime

You can also get tomorrow's date in PHP using the strtotime function. Here's how to do it:

$opening_date = '2024-10-10'; 
$closing_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 day', strtotime($opening_date))); // Add one day to the current date
echo $closing_date ; // Output tomorrow's date 
 

Output:

You will get the 2024-10-09 date in output.

Using strtotime is a simple and effective way to manipulate dates in PHP, especially for relative date calculations.

 

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