Get previous month value in PHP

Question

I have used the below PHP function to get the previous month,

$currmonth = date(\'m\', strtotime(\'-1 month\'));

It was working fine and I

Answer 1

Literally ask strtotime for the 'first day of the previous month' this makes sure it selects the correct month:-

$currmonth = date("m", strtotime("first day of previous month"));