This month’s date range

I noticed that many people search for ‘this month’s date range’. The trick lies in knowing which month you want to go to and that mktime can automatically find the end of the month by passing 0 into the day field.

Well in no short order here it is:

// casting as date object, otherwise it returns a unix timestamp
$first_of_this_month = date('m/d/y',mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),1,date('y')));
$end_of_this_month = date('m/d/y',mktime(0,0,0,date('m')+1,0,date('y')));
 
// if run on 4/01/11
var_dump($first_of_this_month,$end_of_this_month);
// outputs
// string(8) "04/01/11"
// string(8) "04/30/11"

Significant Revisions

  • May 6th, 2024 Converted to jekyll markdown format and copied to personal site
  • Apr 1st, 2011 Originally published on txcowboycoder wordpress site1

Footnotes

  1. Initial md Generated using https://github.com/jsr6720/wordpress-html-scraper-to-md

    Original Wordpress categories: [‘PHP’]

    Original Wordpress tags: “PHP”, “date range”, “php 5.3” ↩