How to get first day of current month in php?

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What I want to do is get 1st date of current month

Here is how to get last day of the current month

date('d-m-Y', strtotime('last day of this month'))

I've tried to use this, but it didn't work for me

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

Any idea how to solve my problem ?

Have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2094797/the-first-day-of-the-current-month-in-php-using-date-modify-as-datetime-object — Eduardo M, May 20 '13 at 03:02

score 178 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '13 at 03:04

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date('01-m-Y') should do it ;)

answered May 20 '13 at 03:04

Niet the Dark Absol

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This doesn't work anymore in PHP 5.6 – Jul 28 '16 at 11:20
@PieterVerschaffelt Working fine for me. What's wrong with yours? – Niet the Dark Absol Jul 28 '16 at 11:31
Hmmm, I tried again and it does work. My sincere apologies. I must have made some mistake – Jul 28 '16 at 16:02

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '13 at 03:03

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date('d-m-Y', strtotime(date('Y-m-1')));

answered May 20 '13 at 03:03

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Ew, converting a format to a date string to a number to another date string... This is almost as bad as the people who do `$("#"+$(this).attr('id'))` in jQuery... – Niet the Dark Absol May 20 '13 at 03:05
@Kolink: I'm sure the outer `date()` is used just to prove the result is correct, while the timestamp is the desired result – zerkms May 20 '13 at 03:06
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Is this really that bad? Seems to work well if you used a date format variable (or constant) and have the need to do something like this. Then if you change your date format, you won't have to also change things like this. `$dateFormat = "d F, Y"; echo date($dateFormat, strtotime(date('Y-m-1')));` – Robert Sep 18 '14 at 23:18
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Any solution using `strtotime()` is bad because that function gives the caller a lot of freedom and does a lot of guesswork to figure out what they were trying to say, and so is very slow – Josip Rodin Mar 22 '16 at 14:12

Andrey Zarovnyaev · Answer 3 · 2013-05-20T03:18:32.767

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$firstDayUTS = mktime (0, 0, 0, date("m"), 1, date("Y"));
$lastDayUTS = mktime (0, 0, 0, date("m"), date('t'), date("Y"));

$firstDay = date("d-m-Y", $firstDayUTS);
$lastDay = date("d-m-Y", $lastDayUTS);

edited May 20 '13 at 03:18

answered May 20 '13 at 03:10

Andrey Zarovnyaev

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thank you for assuming i needed last day as well. i did. – omikes Mar 27 '18 at 15:56

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered May 20 '13 at 03:03

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How about :

date('1-m-Y',strtotime('this month'));

answered May 20 '13 at 03:03

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How to get first day of current month in php?

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