How can i get first day of current month in php?

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Currently I'm using this solution:

$firstDay = new \DateTime('first day of this month');
$lastDay = new \DateTime('last day of this month');

The only issue I came upon is that strange time is being set. I needed correct range for our search interface and I ended up with this:

$firstDay = new \DateTime('first day of this month 00:00:00');
$lastDay = new \DateTime('first day of next month 00:00:00');

answered Jul 4, 2012 at 7:31

Nikola PetkanskiNikola Petkanski

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I use a crazy way to do this is using this command

$firstDay=date('Y-m-d',strtotime("first day of this month"));
$lastDay=date('Y-m-d',strtotime("last day of this month"));

Thats all

answered Jul 18, 2014 at 16:34

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In php 5.2 you can use:

format('Y-m-1'))->format('Y-m-d') ?>

answered Jan 20, 2010 at 10:06

pihentagypihentagy

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Ugly, (and doesn't use your method call above) but works:

echo 'First day of the month: ' . date('m/d/y h:i a',(strtotime('this month',strtotime(date('m/01/y')))));   

answered Jan 19, 2010 at 16:21

mr-skmr-sk

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You can do it like this:

$firstday = date_create()->modify('first day January 2010');

answered Jan 19, 2010 at 16:30

using date method, we should be able to get the result. ie; date('N/D/l', mktime(0, 0, 0, month, day, year));

For Example

echo date('N', mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2017));   // will return 6
echo date('D', mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2017));   // will return Sat
echo date('l', mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2017));   // will return Saturday

answered Jul 20, 2017 at 11:28

Jacob NelsonJacob Nelson

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I use this with a daily cron job to check if I should send an email on the first day of any given month to my affiliates. It's a few more lines than the other answers but solid as a rock.

//is this the first day of the month?
$date = date('Y-m-d');
$pieces = explode("-", $date);
$day = $pieces[2];

//if it's not the first day then stop
if($day != "01") {

     echo "error - it's not the first of the month today";
     exit;

}

answered Feb 13, 2019 at 9:01

Craig EdmondsCraig Edmonds

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Timestamp for start of this month and very last second of current month. You can add 00:00:00 or just reference "today"

Alternative:

$startOfThisMonth = strtotime("first day of this month",strtotime("today"));
OR
$startOfThisMonth = strtotime("first day of this month 00:00:00");

$endOfThisMonth = strtotime("first day of next month",$startOfThisMonth)-1;

answered May 20, 2021 at 20:46

I am providing this answer as an alternative one liner if the DateTime object is not preferred

Basically, I get the current day number, reduce it by one then take that number of days from itself ("today" which automatically resets the clock to 00:00:00 too) and you get the start of the month.

$startOfMonth = strtotime("today - ".(date("j")-1)." days");

answered Jun 3 at 22:28

If you're using composer, you can install carbon: composer require nesbot/carbon

This is then as simple as:

use Carbon/Carbon;

$startOfMonth = Carbon::now()->startOfMonth()->toDateTime();

answered Jun 9 at 9:41

Simon EpskampSimon Epskamp

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All those special php expressions, in spirit of first day of ... are great, though they go out of my head time and again.

So I decided to build a couple of basic datetime abstractions and tons of specific implementation which are auto-completed by any IDE. The point is to find what-kind of things. Like, today, now, the first day of a previous month, etc. All of those things I've listed are datetimes. Hence, there is an interface or abstract class called ISO8601DateTime, and specific datetimes which implement it.

The code in your particular case looks like that:

(new TheFirstDayOfThisMonth(new Now()))->value();

For more about this approach, take a look at this entry.

answered May 9, 2020 at 13:23

Vadim SamokhinVadim Samokhin

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