getting first day and last day of month

[laredotornado]

Hi, Using PHP 4, if I have a date, what is a function I could use to
give me a date that represents the first day of that month? For
example, if my date were "3/19/2006 8:00", I would want my function to
return "3/1/2006 8:00". Similarly what function would I use to return
the last day of the month? In the above example, the output I would
want returned is "3/31/2006 8:00".

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[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

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la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

if my date were "3/19/2006 8:00", I would want my function to
return "3/1/2006 8:00".

See date() and mktime().

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[Sjoerd]

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hi, Using PHP 4, if I have a date, what is a function I could use to
give me a date that represents the first day of that month? For
example, if my date were "3/19/2006 8:00", I would want my function to
return "3/1/2006 8:00". Similarly what function would I use to return
the last day of the month? In the above example, the output I would
want returned is "3/31/2006 8:00".

The first date of the month is trivial: replace the day number with 1.
The last day of the month is somewhat harder, because this varies with
months and leap years. However, you could use checkdate to figure out
what the last day of the month is:

function getlastdayofmonth($month, $year) {
for ($day = 28; $day < 32; $day++) {
if (!checkdate($month, $day, $year)) return $day-1;
}
}

[Oli Filth]

Sjoerd said the following on 03/03/2006 10:58:

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hi, Using PHP 4, if I have a date, what is a function I could use to
give me a date that represents the first day of that month? For
example, if my date were "3/19/2006 8:00", I would want my function to
return "3/1/2006 8:00". Similarly what function would I use to return
the last day of the month? In the above example, the output I would
want returned is "3/31/2006 8:00".

The first date of the month is trivial: replace the day number with 1.
The last day of the month is somewhat harder, because this varies with
months and leap years. However, you could use checkdate to figure out
what the last day of the month is:

function getlastdayofmonth($month, $year) {
for ($day = 28; $day < 32; $day++) {
if (!checkdate($month, $day, $year)) return $day-1;
}
}

Or more directly:

function getLastDayOfMonth($month, $year)
{
return idate('d', mktime(0, 0, 0, ($month + 1), 0, $year));
}

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Sjoerd wrote:

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hi, Using PHP 4, if I have a date, what is a function I could use to
give me a date that represents the first day of that month? For
example, if my date were "3/19/2006 8:00", I would want my function to
return "3/1/2006 8:00". Similarly what function would I use to return
the last day of the month? In the above example, the output I would
want returned is "3/31/2006 8:00".

The first date of the month is trivial: replace the day number with 1.
The last day of the month is somewhat harder, because this varies with
months and leap years. However, you could use checkdate to figure out
what the last day of the month is:

function getlastdayofmonth($month, $year) {
for ($day = 28; $day < 32; $day++) {
if (!checkdate($month, $day, $year)) return $day-1;
}
}

Or, once you have the first of the month, add one month and subtract one
day.

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