PHP - How do you get today but from the last week?

Question

For example, today is Thursday, is there a date() or strtotime() usage that allows me to know last Thursday date?

When executed today (01-22-2015) it should return 01-15-2015

And if I execute that script tomorrow it should return the last week's friday, 01-16-2015

Answer 1

You can try this:

<?php

echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('-1 week'))."\n";

You can look at other examples with strtotime() at php.net

If you want, you can also use DateTime class for this purpose:

<?php

$date = new DateTime('now');
$date->sub(new DateInterval('P1W'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d')."\n";

In this example 'P1W' means 1 week period . About DateInterval format you can read here .

Answer 2

Below is the code

<?php

echo date("Y-m-d",mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")-7, date("Y")));

?>