Timestamps of start and end of month

Question

How can one get the timestamps of the first and last minutes of any month using PHP?

Answer 1

This requires PHP > 5.2 and need adjustement for the "minutes" part

$year = ...;  // this is your year
$month = ...; // this is your month
$month = ($month < 10 ? '0' . $month : $month);
$start = new DateTime($year . '-' . $month . '-01 00:00:00');
$end = $start->modify('+1 month -1 day -1 minute'); //perhaps this need 3 "->modify"
echo $start->format('U');
echo $end->format('U');

(not tested)

Ref: http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php