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Should be pretty easy but I’m stuck. Get date("m/d/y") – 1?

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Jan 23.2009

Right now I have this:

[CODE]$mydate = date(“m/d/y”);[/CODE]

Which gives me today’s date in the correct format. What I need is yesterday’s date. I tried:

[CODE]$mydate = date(“m/d/y”)-1;[/CODE]

but that just returns 0.

I’m looking at the PHP.Net page for the date function but can’t find anything that helps me.

Anyone?

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@skywalker2208Jan 23.2009 — strtotime is what you need. It will convert the date into a unix timestamp then you can use the date function to format it. I have copied and pasted some of the examples from the page below and you should be able to figure it from there.

[code=php]
echo strtotime("now"), "n";
echo strtotime("10 September 2000"), "n";
echo strtotime("+1 day"), "n";
echo strtotime("+1 week"), "n";
echo strtotime("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds"), "n";
echo strtotime("next Thursday"), "n";
echo strtotime("last Monday"), "n";
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@aj_nscJan 23.2009 — [code=php]
$YesterdayUnixtime = mktime()-86400; //gets the unixtime and subtracts 86400 seconds - i.e. 1 day
$mydate = date("m/d/y",$YesterdayUnixtime)
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@NogDogJan 23.2009 — "Yesterday" is one of the strings strtotime() recognizes:
[code=php]
$mydate = date('m/d/Y', strtotime('yesterday'));
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@xvszeroauthorJan 23.2009 — Got it.

THX.
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