PHP subtract 1 month from date formatted with date ('m-Y')

Question

I\'m trying to subtract 1 month from a date.

$today = date(\'m-Y\');

This gives: 08-2016

How can I subtract a month to get 07

Answer 1

First change the date format m-Y to Y-m

    $date = $_POST('date'); // Post month
    or
    $date = date('m-Y'); // currrent month

    $date_txt = date_create_from_format('m-Y', $date);
    $change_format = date_format($date_txt, 'Y-m');

This code minus 1 month to the given date

    $final_date = new DateTime($change_format);
    $final_date->modify('-1 month');
    $output = $final_date->format('m-Y');