Get the last 12 months in PHP

Question

So here is an interesting problem I learned today.

I need to populate an array with the last 12 months, starting with the past month. So in August 2011, the last 12

Answer 1

I'm sure someone has a more elegant solution, but you could start counting backwards from the 1st of this month.

for ($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
    $months[] = date("Y-m%", strtotime( date( 'Y-m-01' )." -$i months"));
}