How to get the first day of the current year?

Question

I need to use PHP DateTime to get the first day of the current year. I\'ve tried:

$year = new DateTime(\'first day of this year\');
var_dump($year);
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Answer 1

in PHP 5.3.10 this works

$myDate = new \DateTime(date("Y")."-01-01");                                                                                                                                                                        
echo $myDate->format("Y-m-d");

In PHP 5.4 and upper you can put all together

echo (new \DateTime(date("Y")."-01-01"))->format("Y-m-d")