Get 30 days back date along with time

Question

I want to calculate EXACT past 30 days time period in php from now (for example 30 aug 14 23:06) to 30 days back (for example 1 aug 14 23:06). I wrote this where current datetime goes in $d1 and past 30 days datetime goes in $d2 but somehow i am not getting correct results. Any idea?

$url=$row["url"];
$pageid=getPageID($url);
$date=date('y-m-d g:i');
$d1=strtotime($date);
$d2=date(strtotime('today - 30 days'));

Thanks

Answer 1

The problem is likely caused by the malformed date() call. The first argument passed to date() should be the format (as shown in the Docs) and the second should be an optional timestamp.

Try this:

$d2 = date('c', strtotime('-30 days'));

PHPFiddle

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As a short aside, the whole snippet can be simplified as follows:

$url = $row["url"];
$pageid = getPageID($url);
$date = date('y-m-d g:i');
$d1 = time();
$d2 = date('y-m-d g:i', strtotime('-30 days'));