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.

19-01-25:Sun
18-01-25:Sat
17-01-25:Fri
16-01-25:Thu
15-01-25:Wed
14-01-25:Tue
13-01-25:Mon
12-01-25:Sun
11-01-25:Sat
10-01-25:Fri
09-01-25:Thu
08-01-25:Wed
07-01-25:Tue
06-01-25:Mon
05-01-25:Sun
04-01-25:Sat

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

01-19-2025: Sun
01-20-2025: Mon
01-21-2025: Tue
01-22-2025: Wed
01-23-2025: Thu
01-24-2025: Fri
01-25-2025: Sat
01-26-2025: Sun
01-27-2025: Mon
01-28-2025: Tue
01-29-2025: Wed
01-30-2025: Thu
01-31-2025: Fri
02-01-2025: Sat
02-02-2025: Sun
02-03-2025: Mon

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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()

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