How to get future date in Faker

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Angad Dubey picture Angad Dubey · Jun 26, 2015 · Viewed 27.1k times · Source

How do I get future dates with:

https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker#fakerproviderdatetime

dateTime($max = 'now')

i.e. what should the $max value be for datetime in the future

Answer

mshaps picture mshaps · Nov 4, 2015

You can pass strtotime string conditions to $faker->dateTimeBetween().

//ranging from today ending in 2 years
$faker->dateTimeBetween('+0 days', '+2 years')

//ranging from next week ending in 1 month
$faker->dateTimeBetween('+1 week', '+1 month')

//ranging from next sunday to next wednesday (if today is wednesday)
$faker->dateTimeBetween('next sunday', 'next wednesday')

see http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php for a full list of string usages and combinations.

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