get startdate and enddate for current quarter php

Question

I am trying to set a start date and end date by the quarter.

For example, I am working on a reporting system where i need to report data for quarter 1, quarter 2, qu

Answer 1

Try to use DateTime function. For your example, is look like:

case 'this_month':
    $start_date = new DateTime('first day of this month');
    $end_date = new DateTime('last day of this month');
break;
case 'last_month':
    $start_date = new DateTime('first day of next month');
    $end_date = new DateTime('last day of next month');
break;

echo $start_date->format(DATE_FORMAT);
echo $end_date->format(DATE_FORMAT);

And if you want to get the first and last days of quarter, try to use:

 $start_date = new DateTime('first day of January');
 $end_date = new DateTime('last day of March');

 echo $start_date->format(DATE_FORMAT);
 echo $end_date->format(DATE_FORMAT);

Or use function strtotime. Example with strtotime:

$quarter_start = strtotime('first day of January');
$quarter_end = strtotime('last day of March');

echo date(DATE_FORMAT, $quarter_start);
echo date(DATE_FORMAT, $quarter_end);