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

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Answer 1

This a much more elegant way to get the end of the month:

  $thedate = Date('m/d/Y'); 
  $lastDayOfMOnth = date('d', mktime(0,0,0, date('m', strtotime($thedate))+1, 0, date('Y', strtotime($thedate))));