How to find the last day of the month from date?

Question

How can I get the last day of the month in PHP?

Given:

$a_date = \"2009-11-23\"

I want 2009-11-30; and given

$a_dat         


        

Answer 1

If you use the Carbon API extension for PHP DateTime, you can get the last day of the month with:

$date = Carbon::now();
$date->addMonth();
$date->day = 0;
echo $date->toDateString(); // use toDateTimeString() to get date and time