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

Perhaps slightly more long winded than you want, but i've used more code than maybe nescessary in order for it to be more readable.

That said, it comes out with the same result as you are getting - what is it you want/expect it to come out with?

//Today is whenever I want it to be.
$today = mktime(0,0,0,3,31,2011);

$hour   = date("H",$today);
$minute = date("i",$today);
$second = date("s",$today);
$month  = date("m",$today);
$day    = date("d",$today);
$year   = date("Y",$today);

echo "Today: ".date('Y-m-d', $today)."
";
echo "Recalulated: ".date("Y-m-d",mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month-1,$day,$year));

If you just want the month and year, then just set the day to be '01' rather than taking 'todays' day:

 $day = 1;

That should give you what you need. You can just set the hour, minute and second to zero as well as you aren't interested in using those.

 date("Y-m",mktime(0,0,0,$month-1,1,$year);

Cuts it down quite a bit ;-)