PHP date yesterday
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> Get timestamp of today and yesterday in php
I was wondering if there was a simple way of getting yesterday's date through this format:
date("F j, Y");
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
date() itself is only for formatting, but it accepts a second parameter.
date("F j, Y", time() - 60 * 60 * 24);
To keep it simple I just subtract 24 hours from the unix timestamp.
A modern oop-approach is using DateTime
$date = new DateTime();
$date->sub(new DateInterval('P1D'));
echo $date->format('F j, Y') . "\n";
Or in your case (more readable/obvious)
$date = new DateTime();
$date->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('yesterday'));
echo $date->format('F j, Y') . "\n";
(Because DateInterval is negative here, we must add() it here)
See also: DateTime::sub() and DateInterval
Solution 2 - Php
strtotime(), as in date("F j, Y", strtotime("yesterday"));
Solution 3 - Php
How easy :)
date("F j, Y", strtotime( '-1 days' ) );
Example:
echo date("Y-m-j H:i:s", strtotime( '-1 days' ) ); // 2018-07-18 07:02:43
Output:
2018-07-17 07:02:43