Today + 1 Month

[SkyRanger]

I am having a problem with a date + month.

 

This is the code:

 

date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+1 month"))

 

The output is: 2013-03-02

 

How would i get it just to go to the last day of the next month if there is only 28 or 30 days of the next month?

 

Not sure how to go about getting what I need:

 

ie:

today is 2013-30-01 add month 2013-28-02

or

today is 2013-28-03 add month 2013-03-31

or

today is 2013-02-16 add month 2013-03-16

 

Is what I need possible?

[Jessica]

Instead of 'd' use 't'.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

And then add only 28 days, not 1 month.

Edited January 30, 2013 by Jessica

[SkyRanger]

Perfect, thanks Jessica

[Christian F.]

Or you could use the relative date/time formats to their full potential:

php > echo date ("Y-m-d", strtotime ("last day of previous month"));
2012-12-31
php > echo date ("Y-m-d", strtotime ("last day of next month"));
2013-02-28

 

As a bonus, you can also use the ± annotations in that format:

php > echo date ("Y-m-d", strtotime ("last day of -2 month"));
2012-11-30

[Barand]

$today = '2013-01-31';

$nextDate = date('Y-m-d', min(strtotime("$today + 1 month"), strtotime('last day of next month')));

echo $nextDate;

 

The above will add a month but set the data to the last day of the next month if necessary.