Date values of yesterday and previous 7 days or any days in PHP

You must have seen how to get today date by using date function. By changing the date value we can get the dates of yesterday. Same way we can extend this to get date values of last 7 days. Or we can extend this to get dates between any to differences.

Let us find out the date value of yesterday.

$m= date("m"); // Month value

$de= date("d"); //today's date

$y= date("Y"); // Year value

echo date('d-m-y:D', mktime(0,0,0,$m,($de-1),$y));

Last seven days date value we can find out by using a for loop. Here is the output of the code.

09-01-26:Fri
08-01-26:Thu
07-01-26:Wed
06-01-26:Tue
05-01-26:Mon
04-01-26:Sun
03-01-26:Sat
02-01-26:Fri
01-01-26:Thu
31-12-25:Wed
30-12-25:Tue
29-12-25:Mon
28-12-25:Sun
27-12-25:Sat
26-12-25:Fri
25-12-25:Thu

Here is the code.

$m= date("m");
$de= date("d");
$y= date("Y");
for($i=0; $i<=15; $i++){
echo date('d-m-y:D',mktime(0,0,0,$m,($de-$i),$y)); 
echo "<br>";
}

Using strtotime()

We can create unixtime stamp from text string by using strtotime()

for($i=0; $i<=15; $i++){

echo date('m-d-Y: D',strtotime("$i day"))."<br>";

}

Output is here

01-09-2026: Fri
01-10-2026: Sat
01-11-2026: Sun
01-12-2026: Mon
01-13-2026: Tue
01-14-2026: Wed
01-15-2026: Thu
01-16-2026: Fri
01-17-2026: Sat
01-18-2026: Sun
01-19-2026: Mon
01-20-2026: Tue
01-21-2026: Wed
01-22-2026: Thu
01-23-2026: Fri
01-24-2026: Sat

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James	21-04-2010
Does this work if the date is 4th of January (for example)

smo	02-05-2010
Yes this will work perfectly. Try with March 1st of 2008 also. For testing you need to change the date of your PC or server.

bhanu	30-09-2009
thank you for help.it very help

siswoutomo	28-12-2009
Very good this post, thank lot of

kalpana	15-01-2013
thanks you so much.It was so helpful

Getting yesterday and previous days date values

Using strtotime()