In PHP, is there an easy way to get the first and last date of a month?

Question

I need to get the first and last day of a month in the format YYYY-MM-DD given only the month and year. Is there a good, easy way to do this?

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this with PHP is

$dateBegin = strtotime("first day of last month");  
$dateEnd = strtotime("last day of last month");

echo date("MYDATEFORMAT", $dateBegin);  
echo "
";        
echo date("MYDATEFORMAT", $dateEnd);

Or the last week

if (date('N', time()) == 7) {
$dateBegin = strtotime("-2 weeks Monday");
$dateEnd = strtotime("last Sunday");
} else {
$dateBegin = strtotime("Monday last week"); 
$dateEnd = strtotime("Sunday last week");   
}

Or the last year

$dateBegin = strtotime("1/1 last year");
$dateEnd = strtotime("12/31 this year");