[SOLVED] Month before date( "m" )

[Mutley]

Is there anyway to find the month before the current month using date( "m" )? I imagine it requires some array or would a unix timestamp time() be more efficient for this?

 

Regards,

Nick.

[gevans]

well if you want to us a timestamp the following is very simple

 

$thestamp = time();

$past = 60*60; //that's an hour 60 seconds times 60 minutes

$thestamp -= $past;//timestamp is no placed an hour in the past

[rhodesa]

echo date('m',mktime(0,0,0,date('m') - 1,1,date('Y')));

[Mutley]

Thanks a lot guys,

 

Could you explain this? I'm sure it will work just I've not seen the mktime function before, looks interesting!

 

echo date('m',mktime(0,0,0,date('m') - 1,1,date('Y')));

[rhodesa]

mktime() take the hour/min/sec/mon/day/year and returns a timestamp:

http://php.net/mktime

 

it's great cus you can give it numbers that are too big or small and it will compensate. so in january, the code i gave you would get the 0 month of 2009, which it knows is the 12th of 2008.

 

i also just remembered you should be able to do this:

echo date('m',strtotime('-1 month'));