Getting last month's date in php

Question

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

Answer 1

Simply get last month.

Example:

Today is: 2020-09-02

Code:

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime(date('Y-m-d')." -1 month"));

Result:

2020-08-02