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When I was writing a program today, I suddenly discovered a function I wrote a long time ago to get the number of days in a month, a classic switch version. But when I got the number of days in the previous month, I just changed the month by -1. I guess I was too sleepy at the time. , it gave me a creepy feeling when I saw it. I originally wanted to deal with it again, but I thought there must be some super convenient method, so I found the version below and made a small modification.
Get the date of this month:
$firstday is the first day of the month. If $date is 2014-2, $firstday will be 2014-02-01. Then add one month to $firstday to get 2014-03-01, and then subtract one day. It is 2014-02-28. It is so convenient to use date() and strtotime().
Get the date of last month:
You need to get a timestamp for the last month’s date first, and then add -1 to the month. The super smart date() will convert things like 2014-0-1 into 2013-12-01. It’s so cool. .
Get next month’s date:
The code for next month’s date looks a bit longer, because date() cannot convert something like 2014-13-01, it will go back directly to 1970, so we need to deal with the problem of December in the front, except for December Just +1 for the month and that’s it.
In general, it is very convenient, the date function is too powerful.