How do I get next month date from today's date and insert it in my database?

Question

I have two columns in my db: start_date and end_date, which are both DATE types. My code is updating the dates as follows:

Answer 1

You do not actually need PHP functions to achieve this. You can already do simple date manipulations directly in SQL, for example:

$sql1 = "
    UPDATE `users` SET 
    `start_date` = CURDATE(), 
    `end_date` = DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH)  
    WHERE `users`.`id` = '" . $id . "';
";

Refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_addtime