how to get the number of days of the current month? in PHP

Question

i want to check if today is the last day of the month, but i don\'t really know how. i want to write it in php.

can you help?

thanks, Sebastian

Answer 1

And here it is, wrapped up as a function:

function is_last_day_of_month($timestamp = NULL) {
    if(is_null($timestamp))
        $timestamp = time();
    return date('t', $timestamp) == date('j', $timestamp);
}