php: how to decrement date time into a foreach for every item...?

Question

... and not one time only...

    $now = date("D, d M Y H:i:s O");
    foreach ($items AS $item)
        {

            $currentDate = strtotime($now);
            $pastDate = $currentDate-(60*5);
            $formatDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $pastDate);
            echo "\t\t<item>\n";
            echo "\t\t\t<pubDate>" . $formatDate . "</pubDate>\n" ;

now, i want formatDate decrementing of 5 minutes every time, i don't want the same time for every element... thanks

Answer 1

$currentDate = time();
foreach ($items as $item){
    $formatDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $currentDate);
    echo "\t\t<item>\n";
    echo "\t\t\t<pubDate>" . $formatDate . "</pubDate>\n" ;
    $currentDate = strtotime('-5 minutes', $currentDate);
}