How to find first day of the next month and remaining days till this date with PHP

Question

How can I find first day of the next month and the remaining days till this day from the present day?

Thank you

Answer 1

You could do something like this. To have this functionality, you need to make use of a php library available in https://packagist.org/packages/ishworkh/navigable-date.

With that is really easy to do what you're asking for here. For e.g:

$format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';

$Date = \NavigableDate\NavigableDateFacade::create('2017-02-24');
var_dump($Date->format($format));

$resetTime = true;
$resetDays = true;

$NextMonth = $Date->nextMonth($resetTime, $resetDays);

var_dump($NextMonth->format($format));

$DayUntilFirstOfNextMonth = $NextMonth->getDifference($Date);

var_dump('Days left:' . $DayUntilFirstOfNextMonth->format('%d'));

gives you ouput:

string(19) "2017-02-24 00:00:00"
string(19) "2017-03-01 00:00:00"
string(11) "Days left:5"

Note: Additionally this library let you navigate through dates by day(s), week(s), year(s) forward or backward. For more information look into its README.