how to get the number of days of the current month? in PHP

Question

i want to check if today is the last day of the month, but i don\'t really know how. i want to write it in php.

can you help?

thanks, Sebastian

Answer 1

There is probably a more elegant solution than this but you can just use php's date function:

$maxDays=date('t');
$currentDayOfMonth=date('j');

if($maxDays == $currentDayOfMonth){
  //Last day of month
}else{
  //Not last day of the month
}