how to get previous day in PHP

Question

I know how to get the current date in PHP like so---

echo date("Y/m/d")

But I am not sure how to get it the previous day. I mean today is 2015-08-10, so how I can get yesterday's date 2015-08-09.

UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)

Is it the solution, but do not know how it can solve my problem.

Does anyone know how to get the previous day in the PHP?

I have looked a lot but did not find any simple solution for this, anyone knows any solution for this problem. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use this-

date('Y/m/d',strtotime("-1 days"));

Or Use DateTime class like this-

$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->modify("-1 days")->format('Y-m-d');