how to get the first and last days of a given month

Question

I wish to rewrite a mysql query which use month() and year() functions to display all the posts from a certain month which goes to my function as a \'Y-m-d\' parameter forma

Answer 1

Try this , if you are using PHP 5.3+, in php

$query_date = '2010-02-04';
$date = new DateTime($query_date);
//First day of month
$date->modify('first day of this month');
$firstday= $date->format('Y-m-d');
//Last day of month
$date->modify('last day of this month');
$lastday= $date->format('Y-m-d');

For finding next month last date, modify as follows,

 $date->modify('last day of 1 month');
 echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

and so on..

Answer 2

I know this question has a good answer with 't', but thought I would add another solution.

$first = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("first day of this month"));
$last = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("last day of this month"));

Answer 3

## Get Current Month's First Date And Last Date

echo "Today Date: ". $query_date = date('d-m-Y');
echo "<br> First day of the month: ". date('01-m-Y', strtotime($query_date));
echo "<br> Last day of the month: ". date('t-m-Y', strtotime($query_date));