php - Date manipulation issue

Question

I want to get the start and end date of the previous calender month.

So, it's July 2012 now, I want the function to return 01 June 2012 as start and 30 June 2012 as the end.

This is my code:

$current_month = date("Y-m-01 00:00:00");
$start_month = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($current_month) . " -1 month"));
$end_month = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($current_month) . " -1 second"));
echo "Start Month: " . date('Y-m-d',$start_month) . "( " . $start_month . ")<br>";
echo "End Month: " . date('Y-m-d',$end_month) . "( " . $end_month . ")<br>";

But it echo's:

Start Month: 2012-07-01( 1341093600)
End Month: 2012-07-01( 1341093600)

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Answering whats wrong with the code you posted, you just needed to move your round bracket over a little bit and you had it. :)

<?php
$current_month = date("Y-m-01 00:00:00");
$start_month = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($current_month . " -1 month")));
$end_month = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($current_month . " -1 day")));
echo "Start Month: " . date('Y-m-d',$start_month) . "( " . $start_month . ")<br>";
echo "End Month: " . date('Y-m-d',$end_month) . "( " . $end_month . ")<br>";
?>

Answer 2

Try this, (check the manual of strtotime)

$now = time();
$current_month = date("Y-m-01 00:00:00", $now);
$start_month = strtotime("-1 month", $now);
$end_month = strtotime("-1 second", $now);

Answer 3

Try something like this:

echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,date('m')-1,1,date('y')));
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),0,date('y')));

Answer 4

Seems a little bit oversized, what you (and the other answers :X) tried. It's justs

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of last month'));
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last day of last month'));

For arbitrary months

// 3 months in the past
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of -3 months'));
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last day of -3 months'));

// 3 months in the future
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of +3 months'));
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last day of +3 months'));

Read more At the manual

Answer 5

echo $firstdate= "01/".date('m')."/".date('Y') ;
 $lastdateofmonth=date('t',date('m'));
 echo $lastdate=$lastdateofmonth."/".date('m')."/".date('Y') ;

or

$date='2012-06-05 12:00:00';

echo "End = ".date("Y-m-t",strtotime($date)); 
echo "start = ".date("Y-m-01",strtotime($date));