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

Be careful, because sometimes strtotime("+1 months") can skip month numbers.

Example:

$today = date("Y-m-d"); // 2012-01-30
$next_month = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("$today +1 month"));

If today is January, next month should be February which has 28 or 29 days, but PHP will return March as next month, not February.