I have 2 dates in PHP, how can I run a foreach loop to go through all of those days?

Question

I'm starting with a date 2010-05-01 and ending with 2010-05-10. How can I iterate through all of those dates in PHP?

Answer 1

$begin = new DateTime('2010-05-01');
$end = new DateTime('2010-05-10');

$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
$period = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval, $end);

foreach ($period as $dt) {
    echo $dt->format("l Y-m-d H:i:s\n");
}

This will output all days in the defined period between $start and $end. If you want to include the 10th, set $end to 11th. You can adjust format to your liking. See the PHP Manual for DatePeriod. It requires PHP 5.3.