Get the timestamp of exactly one week ago in PHP?

Question

I need to calculate the timestamp of exactly 7 days ago using PHP, so if it's currently March 25th at 7:30pm, it would return the timestamp for March 18th at 7:30pm.

Should I just subtract 604800 seconds from the current timestamp, or is there a better method?

Solution 1

strtotime("-1 week")

Solution 2

strtotime is your friend

echo strtotime("-1 week");

Solution 3

http://php.net/strtotime

echo strtotime("-1 week");

Solution 4

There is the following example on PHP.net

<?php
  $nextWeek = time() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60);
               // 7 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60secs
  echo 'Now:       '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";
  echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', $nextWeek) ."\n";
  // or using strtotime():
  echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 week')) ."\n";
?>

Changing + to - on the first (or last) line will get what you want.

Solution 5

From PHP 5.2 you can use DateTime:

$timestring="2015-03-25";
$datetime=new DateTime($timestring);
$datetime->modify('-7 day');
echo $datetime->format("Y-m-d"); //2015-03-18

Instead of creating DateTime with string, you can setTimestamp directly on object:

$timestamp=1427241600;//2015-03-25
$datetime=new DateTime();
$datetime->setTimestamp($timestamp);
$datetime->modify('-7 day');
echo $datetime->format("Y-m-d"); //2015-03-18

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Comments

[starbeamrainbowlabs]

@AndrewBarber The answer may have been edited, but this answer does not appear to include a link to anything.

[Sanjay]

You have typo strotime for strtotime .. :) too early just 5 yrs ago .. .:D