How to Add Days to Date in PHP

In this article, you will learn how to add days to date in PHP.

Let’s say you have a string variable named ‘a’ with the value of a date.

$a = date_create("03-03-2021");

Add Days to Date

In order to add days to date, you can use the date_create() method, date_add() method, date_interval_create_from_date_string() method and date_format() method.

$a = date_create("03-03-2021");

// Add 10 days to variable 'a'
date_add($a, date_interval_create_from_date_string("10 days"));

echo date_format($a,"d-m-Y");
// 13-03-2021

Note: The date_create() method functions by creating a DateTime object from a supplied string. The date_add() method functions by adding days, months, years, hours, minutes or seconds to the first supplied argument. The date_interval_create_from_date_string() functions by creating a DateInterval from the supplied string. The date_format() method functions by returning a formatted date.