How can PHP handle relative expressions for date and time?

PHP can handle relative expressions for date and time using the strtotime() function. This function can parse any textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp, allowing for easy manipulation of dates and times using relative expressions such as "+1 day" or "-1 week". 

// Example code snippet
$today = date('Y-m-d');
$tomorrow = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 day'));
$nextWeek = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 week'));
echo "Today: $today\n";
echo "Tomorrow: $tomorrow\n";
echo "Next week: $nextWeek\n";

Keywords

PHP relative expressions date time handling

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