generate array for dates in PHP

Question

I'm trying to generate a rough way of selecting a date in a PHP page, very primitive but it is what i was asked to produce.

basically i'm trying to produce a select drop down in HTML which will have a range of dates (in dd/mm/yyyy format)

it will include today's date (12/03/2015) and the range will be 10 days from today's date, but will need to some how follow the standard calendar (for example 31 or 30 days in month...)

can this be done? if so can someone help me out please

*if so can someone help me out please* Did you asked google, before you asked here? — Rizier123, Mar 12 '15 at 00:44
yes, struggling to find something other than jquery datepicker — Stephen Jackson, Mar 12 '15 at 00:45
Yes it can be done. PHP's [DateTime](http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php) object has a plethora of methods for manipulating and formatting dates. — , Mar 12 '15 at 00:46
[Do this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/14617225/250259) in a loop — John Conde, Mar 12 '15 at 00:46
What's wrong with the jquery UI datepicker? It sounds like what you're looking for. — Simon MᶜKenzie, Mar 12 '15 at 00:50
ok so if i have a $begin and an $end can i loop through results in a range, if so how>? — Stephen Jackson, Mar 12 '15 at 00:57

Darragh Enright · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-12T01:22:51.340

Have a look at DatePeriod. You can create a DatePeriod and map over it to create an array of dates, like so:

// create DatePeriod with the following arguments:
//
// * DateTime for current datetime
// * DateInterval of 1 day
// * Recurrences - today's date *plus* this number of repeated dates
$period = new DatePeriod(new DateTime(), new DateInterval('P1D'), 9);

// Convert DatePeriod to array of DateTime objects
// Map over array
// Build array of formatted date strings
$dates = array_map(function($dt) {
    return $dt->format('d/m/Y');
}, iterator_to_array($period));

// Done :)
var_dump($dates);

This yields something like:

array (size=11)
  0 => string '12/03/2015' (length=10)
  1 => string '13/03/2015' (length=10)
  2 => string '14/03/2015' (length=10)
  3 => string '15/03/2015' (length=10)
  4 => string '16/03/2015' (length=10)
  5 => string '17/03/2015' (length=10)
  6 => string '18/03/2015' (length=10)
  7 => string '19/03/2015' (length=10)
  8 => string '20/03/2015' (length=10)
  9 => string '21/03/2015' (length=10)

Note that recurrences is one less as it does not include the start date.

Hope this helps :)

generate array for dates in PHP

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