How to get previous month and year relative to today, using strtotime and date?

Question

I need to get previous month and year, relative to current date.

However, see following example.

// Today is 2011-03-30
echo date(\'Y-m-d\', strtotim         


        

Answer 1

If you want the previous year and month relative to a specific date and have DateTime available then you can do this:

$d = new DateTime('2013-01-01', new DateTimeZone('UTC')); 
$d->modify('first day of previous month');
$year = $d->format('Y'); //2012
$month = $d->format('m'); //12