A PHP Method to generate random dates between two dates specificed with a format

random_dates.php

<?php
/**
 * Method to generate random date between two dates
 * @param $sStartDate
 * @param $sEndDate
 * @param string $sFormat
 * @return bool|string
 */
function randomDate($sStartDate, $sEndDate, $sFormat = 'Y-m-d H:i:s')
{
    // Convert the supplied date to timestamp
    $fMin = strtotime($sStartDate);
    $fMax = strtotime($sEndDate);

    // Generate a random number from the start and end dates
    $fVal = mt_rand($fMin, $fMax);

    // Convert back to the specified date format
    return date($sFormat, $fVal);
}

very helpfull method :)

thanks a lot i will add this to my laravel pacakage sir and credit will be added https://github.com/ManojKiranA/laravelhelpers

i have updated your function to my requirement

function randomDate($startDate, $endDate, $count = 1 ,$dateFormat = 'Y-m-d H:i:s')
{
    // https://gist.github.com/samcrosoft/6550473

    // Convert the supplied date to timestamp
    $minDateString = strtotime($startDate);
    $maxDateString = strtotime($endDate);

    for ($ctrlVarb = 1; $ctrlVarb <= $count; $ctrlVarb++) 
    { 
       $randomDate[] = mt_rand($minDateString, $maxDateString); 
    }
    if (sizeof($randomDate) == 1) 
    {
        $randomDate = date($dateFormat, $randomDate[0]);
        return $randomDate;
    }elseif (sizeof($randomDate) > 1) 
    {
        foreach ($randomDate as $randomDateKey => $randomDateValue) 
        {
           $randomDatearray[] =  date($dateFormat, $randomDateValue);
        }
        return $randomDatearray;
    }
}

thanks <3