Get a List of Dates Between Two Dates with PHP

When building an events calendar recently I needed to obtain all the dates between two dates. For others looking to do the same thing I used the code below to achieve this. Simply change the $date_from and $date_to variables to get it working for you.

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1. // Specify the start date. This date can be any English textual format  
2. $date_from = "2010-02-03";   
3. $date_from = strtotime($date_from); // Convert date to a UNIX timestamp  
4.   
5. // Specify the end date. This date can be any English textual format  
6. $date_to = "2010-09-10";  
7. $date_to = strtotime($date_to); // Convert date to a UNIX timestamp  
8.   
9. // Loop from the start date to end date and output all dates inbetween  
10. for ($i=$date_from; $i<=$date_to; $i+=86400) {  
11.     echo date("Y-m-d", $i).'<br />';  
12. }