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Adding/Subtracting no. of days to specific date using php.

Adding/Subtracting no. of days to given date using PHP.

 

//Capturing today's date

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

// logic to calculate date -7 days from $date. Update the -7 days as per your requirement.

 
$newDate=date_create($date)->modify('-7 days')->format('Y-m-d'); 

echo $newDate;

/*

Output: Eg. $date is 2021-03-20.

Hence $newDate will be 2021-03-13

*/

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