Add days to a date (PHP) [duplicate]

Question

I am saving dates like so: 2013-11-06 using date function

date("Y-m-d")

Would like to add three days to the date. Would I need to use strtotime() for this?

Answer 1

Add days to a date (PHP)

$datetime = new DateTime('2013-01-22');
$datetime->modify('+1 day');
echo $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

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Answer 2

Here you go

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+3 days"));