How to calculate days from variable date?

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

This will be easy for one of you gurus. I want to fetch the date from a variable date, for example:

Code: <?php
$mydate = "";
$daysaway = 400;
$startdate = "5/5/2005";

//I need how to get the date that was 400 days ago

print "$mydate was $daysaway days from $startdate.";
?>

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