Getting last month s date in php

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I want to get last month s date  I wrote this out    prevmonth   date  M Y      Which gives me the current month year   I can t tell if I should use strtotime  mktime  Something to the timestamp  Do I need to add something afterwards to reset so that the date isn t set to last month throughout everything for all timestamps on my site  I m trying to RTM but it s hard for me to figure this out

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The best solution I have found is this  function subtracMonth  currentMonth   monthsToSubtract            finalMonth    currentMonth          for  i 0  i lt  monthsToSubtract  i                   finalMonth--              if   finalMonth   0                     finalMonth    12                                    return  finalMonth          So if we are in 3 March  and we want to subtract 5 months that would be subtractMonth 3 5   which would give 10 October   If the year is also desired  one could do this  function subtracMonth  currentMonth   monthsToSubtract        finalMonth    currentMonth       totalYearsToSubtract   0      for  i 0  i lt  monthsToSubtract  i               finalMonth--          if   finalMonth   0                 finalMonth    12                totalYearsToSubtract                           Get  currentYear       Calculate  finalYear    currentYear -  totalYearsToSubtract        Put resulting  finalMonth and  finalYear into an object as attributes       Return the object

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It s simple to get last month date  echo date  Y-n-j   strtotime  first day of previous month     echo date  Y-n-j   strtotime  last day of previous month       at November 3 returns  2014-10-1 2014-10-31

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If you want to get first date of previous month   Then you can use as like following      prevmonth   date  M Y 1   strtotime  -1 months     what  first date will always be 1  D

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echo strtotime  -1 month      That will output the timestamp for last month exactly   You don t need to reset anything afterwards   If you want it in an English format after that  you can use date   to format the timestamp  ie   echo date  Y-m-d H i s  strtotime  -1 month

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public function getLastMonth          now   new DateTime         lastMonth    now- gt sub new DateInterval  P1M         return  lastMonth- gt format  Ym

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Oh I figured this out  please ignore unless you have the same problem i did in which case    prevmonth   date  M Y  mktime 0 0 0 date  m  -1 1 date  Y

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Use this short code to get previous month for any given date    tgl    25 january 2012     prevmonth   date  M Y  mktime 0 0 0 date  m   strtotime  tgl  -1 1 date  Y   strtotime  tgl      echo  prevmonth    The result is December 2011  Works on a month with shorter day with previous month

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Found this one wrong when the previous months is shorter than current   echo date  Y-m-d H i s  strtotime  -1 month       Try on March the 30th and you will get 2012-03-01 instead of 2012-02     Working out on better solution

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lastMonth   date  M Y   strtotime  -1 month     var dump  lastMonth    lastMonth   date  M Y   mktime 0  0  0  date  m   - 1  1  date  Y      var dump  lastMonth

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time   mktime 0  0  0  date  m   date  d  -date  t    date  Y      lastMonth   date  d-m-Y    time     OR   lastMonth   date  m-Y   mktime   - 31 3600 24     works on 30 03 2012

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prevmonth   date  M Y   strtotime  last month

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It works for me    Today is  31 03 2012  echo date  Y-m-d   strtotime date  m   mktime   - 31 3600 24    01   date  Y     00 00 00        2012-02-01 echo  date  Y-m-d   mktime   - 31 3600 24      2012-02-29

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Incorrect answers are    lastMonth   date  M Y   strtotime  -1 month      lastDate   date  Y-m   strtotime  last month       The reason is if current month is 30  days but previous month is 29 and less   lastMonth will be the same as current month   e g    If  currentMonth    30 03 2016   echo  lastMonth   date  m-Y   strtotime  -1 month       gt  03-2016 echo  lastDate   date  Y-m   strtotime  last month       gt  2016-03   The correct answer will be   echo date  m-Y   strtotime  first day of previous month       gt  02-2016 echo sprintf   02d  date  m  -1    date  -Y      gt  02-2016 echo date  m-Y  mktime 0 0 0 date  m  -1 1 date  Y        gt  02-2016

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echo date  Y  strtotime  -1 year              last year lt br gt  echo date  d  strtotime  -1 day           last day lt br gt  echo date  m  strtotime  -1 month             last month lt br gt

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This question is quite old but here goes anyway  If you re trying to get just the previous month and the day does not matter  you can use this    date    2014-01-03     dateTime   new DateTime  date     lastMonth    dateTime- gt modify  -     dateTime- gt format  d       days  - gt format  F Y     echo  lastMonth      December 2013

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Simply get last month  Example  Today is  2020-09-02 Code  echo date  Y-m-d   strtotime date  Y-m-d    quot  -1 month quot      Result   2020-08-02

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You can use strtotime  which is great in this kind of situations     timestamp   strtotime  -1 month    var dump date  Y-m    timestamp      Will get you    string  2009-11   length 7

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if you want to get just previous month  then you can use as like following   prevmonth   date  M Y   strtotime  -1 months       if you want to get same days of previous month  Then you can use as like following      prevmonth   date  M Y d   strtotime  -1 months       if you want to get last date of previous month   Then you can use as like following       prevmonth   date  M Y t   strtotime  -1 months       if you want to get first date of previous month   Then you can use as like following       prevmonth   date  M Y 1   strtotime  -1 months

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