Date – Stringtodate format +1 week etc

1st August 2013

Php - Dates & Time


<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last day of previous month')),"<br>";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("10 September 2000")), "<br>";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+1 day")), "<br>";
echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("+1 week")), "<br>";
echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds")), "<br>";
echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("next Thursday")), "<br>";
echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("last Monday")), "<br>";
?>

<?php

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last day of previous month'))," ";

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("10 September 2000")), " ";

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+1 day")), " ";

echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("+1 week")), " ";

echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds")), " ";

echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("next Thursday")), " ";

echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("last Monday")), " ";

And date minus 17 years


echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("-17 years")), "<br>";

echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime("-17 years")), " ";

and if that does not work this will (last day of month)


echo $lastDay = date('Y-m-d', mktime(-1, 0, 0, date("m"), 1, date("Y")));

echo $lastDay = date('Y-m-d', mktime(-1, 0, 0, date("m"), 1, date("Y")));

First day of month


echo $firstDay = date('Y-m-d', mktime(+1, 0, 0, date("m"), 1, date("Y")));
OR
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of this month'));

echo $firstDay = date('Y-m-d', mktime(+1, 0, 0, date("m"), 1, date("Y")));

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first day of this month'));

+7 days from first day of month


echo $firstDay = date('Y-m-d', mktime(+1, 0, 0, date("m"), 1, date("Y")));
echo "<br>";
echo $lastday   = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+7 days', strtotime($firstDay)));