Twig date loop each day in a period

Question

So, here's my situation, I have a beginning date and an ending date, with Twig I want to be able to loop through all days in the so called period so that I could print out every day. Of course, that's just for understanding how to do it, the goal is to get them into a chart. Anyway, I have the following code (with what are my vars) :

{% set start_year = date(start) | date('d-m-Y') %}
{% set end_year = date(end)| date('d-m-Y') %}

{% for i in start_year..end_year %}
    {{ i }}
{% endfor %}

My start var is 01-01-2003 and my end var is 10-05-2014. The values don't matter as they could change, but that's the format I have.

This actually prints out 0 1 which I don't understand at all. If anyone has an idea either how to do this or how to fix what I'm doing, it would be really nice. Thanks.

Answer 1

You cannot define a range of exact dates (neither as range in php) but you can create a range of seconds with step of a 24 hours second which is 86400; if you use date('U') it will convert date string to seconds since the Unix Epoch (same as Time() in php)

{% set start_date = '01-06-2014' %}
{% set end_date = '05-06-2014' %}
{% for x in range(start_date|date('U'), end_date|date('U'), 86400 ) %}
   {{ x|date('d/m/Y') }}<br>
{% endfor %}

Tip
Pay attention the format of date to use - as separator not / because it will lead to totally different result