PHP subtract 1 month from date formatted with date ('m-Y')

Question

I\'m trying to subtract 1 month from a date.

$today = date(\'m-Y\');

This gives: 08-2016

How can I subtract a month to get 07

Answer 1

Try this,

$today = date('m-Y');
$newdate = date('m-Y', strtotime('-1 months', strtotime($today))); 
echo $newdate;