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I have a php variable:

$datevar = date("Y-m-d");

Which shows me the CURRENT date in the specified format.

What I want is the date from 7 days ago for CURRENT date in that format. I have tried:

$datevar = $datevar - 7;

and

$datevar = date("Y-m-d") - 7 ;

But they both cause an error.

aorcsik
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Mike Pala
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Try the code below, that should work:

$date = date("Y-m-d");// current date 
$date = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date)) . " -1 week");

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Twinfriends
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You can do it like this. Here we are using DateTime and DateInterval

Try this code snippet here

<?php

$datevar = date("Y-m-d");//your date

$dateTimeObj=new DateTime($datevar);
$dateTimeObj->sub(new DateInterval("P7D"));//subtracting 7 days
echo $dateTimeObj->format("Y-m-d");
Sahil Gulati
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I refer to this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3727821/7454754

So in your example this would be something like

<?php
  $today = date("Y-m-d");
  $newDate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($today . " - 7 days"));
?>
Marcel Goldammer
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