subtract a month from a date()

[Barand]

If you had used it on the 26th November, 2018 it would

[Paul-D]

Do I relay have to do all this in PHP 5.0?

<?php
$Date = time();
$Month = date('m' ,$Date);
$Year = date('Y' ,$Date);
$Month -= 1;
if ($Month == 0)
  {
   $Month = 12;
   $Year -= 1;
  }
$Date = $Year . "-" . $Month . "-01";
echo $Date;
?>

[Barand]

Either that or do this

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of last month'));      // 2018-12-01

 

[Paul-D]

Thanks
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of last month')); 
is beeter than

$date = new DateTime('first day of last month');

But how do I get a php.ini into the system for future class related programming

I have
[Date]
date.timezone=Europe/London
 

Will it be picked up automatically or as a shared server be ignored?

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by Paul-D

[Barand]

First step is look at the output from phpinfo()

That will tell you the location of the ini file that is being used and your current settings

[ginerjm]

As I had to do, you should contact your hosting support people and TELL them you want your PHP.ini file to indicate the timezone that you want to default to.  Then you'll never have to worry about it again.  If they tell you that you can't have it that way, then tell them to give you a FULL copy of the existing .ini file that is in use where you can access it and make the change(s) you need.  Be careful though!