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Php – To obtain a date that is 3 months prior to the current system date

How can I obtain a date in PHP that is both three months and three days ahead of the current system date?

    $originalDate = date('m-d-Y'); // The original date
    $monthsToSubtract = 3;

    $newDate = date('m-d-Y', strtotime(-$monthsToSubtract, strtotime($originalDate)));


    return $newDate;

The code provided is giving me an unexpected or unusual result.
Output =>> 01-01-1970

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  1. 0

    You can do it through DateTime PHP class, for reference you can visit the link https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php

    $currentDate = new DateTime('2023-07-30'); // Get the current date and time

$currentDate->modify('-3 months'); // Subtract 3 months

$newDate = $currentDate->format('Y-m-d');

return $newDate;
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  2. 0

    I would use the DateTime class as suggested by Kamran Allana. But I modified it to reflect more to the question.

        <?php
    $myDate = new DateTime();
    $myDate->modify('-3 day');
    $myDate->modify('-3 month');

   // and now you could either continue with this object $myDate
   // or convert it to a string:

    $newDate = $myDate('m-d-Y');
    ?>

    Notice the string $newDate cannot be used to do calculations

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