Date range in PHP

Date and time values are very essential in PHP as there are different time formats, time zones, daylight saving offsets.

By carefully with the date inputs you can format output however you like.

In the below function you can get range of dates:

function date_range( $start, $end, $step = '+1 day', $format = 'Y/m/d' )
{
$dates = array();
$current = strtotime( $start );
$end = strtotime( $end );
while( $current <= $end ) {
$dates[] = date( $format, $current );
$current = strtotime( $step, $current );
}
return $dates;
}

print_r( date_range( '2010/07/26', '2010/08/05') );

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You can get the result as below:

Array
(
[0] => 2015/12/01
[1] => 2015/12/02
[2] => 2015/12/03
[3] => 2015/12/04
[4] => 2015/12/05
[5] => 2015/12/06
[6] => 2015/12/07
[7] => 2015/12/08
[8] => 2015/12/09
[9] => 2015/12/10
)

Also, you can get full week interval:

print_r( date_range( '2015/12/01', '2016/01/10', '+1 week') );

And as a result you will get this:

Array
(
[0] => 2015/12/01
[1] => 2015/12/08
[2] => 2015/12/15
[3] => 2015/12/22
[4] => 2015/12/29
[5] => 2016/01/05
)