increment date by one month

Question

Let\'s say I have a date in the following format: 2010-12-11 (year-mon-day)

With PHP, I want to increment the date by one month, and I want the year to be automatica

Answer 1

I use this way:-

 $occDate='2014-01-28';
 $forOdNextMonth= date('m', strtotime("+1 month", strtotime($occDate)));
//Output:- $forOdNextMonth=02


/*****************more example****************/
$occDate='2014-12-28';

$forOdNextMonth= date('m', strtotime("+1 month", strtotime($occDate)));
//Output:- $forOdNextMonth=01

//***********************wrong way**********************************//
$forOdNextMonth= date('m', strtotime("+1 month", $occDate));
  //Output:- $forOdNextMonth=02; //instead of $forOdNextMonth=01;
//******************************************************************//

Answer 2

I needed similar functionality, except for a monthly cycle (plus months, minus 1 day). After searching S.O. for a while, I was able to craft this plug-n-play solution:

function add_months($months, DateTime $dateObject) 
    {
        $next = new DateTime($dateObject->format('Y-m-d'));
        $next->modify('last day of +'.$months.' month');

        if($dateObject->format('d') > $next->format('d')) {
            return $dateObject->diff($next);
        } else {
            return new DateInterval('P'.$months.'M');
        }
    }

function endCycle($d1, $months)
    {
        $date = new DateTime($d1);

        // call second function to add the months
        $newDate = $date->add(add_months($months, $date));

        // goes back 1 day from date, remove if you want same day of month
        $newDate->sub(new DateInterval('P1D')); 

        //formats final date to Y-m-d form
        $dateReturned = $newDate->format('Y-m-d'); 

        return $dateReturned;
    }

Example:

$startDate = '2014-06-03'; // select date in Y-m-d format
$nMonths = 1; // choose how many months you want to move ahead
$final = endCycle($startDate, $nMonths); // output: 2014-07-02

Answer 3

If you want to get the date of one month from now you can do it like this

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

If you want to get the date of two months from now, you can achieve that by doing this

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('2 month'));

And so on, that's all.

Answer 4

$time = strtotime("2010.12.11");
$final = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 month", $time));

// Finally you will have the date you're looking for.

Answer 5

Just updating the answer with simple method for find the date after no of months. As the best answer marked doesn't give the correct solution.

<?php

    $date = date('2020-05-31');
    $current = date("m",strtotime($date));
    $next = date("m",strtotime($date."+1 month"));
    if($current==$next-1){
        $needed = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date." +1 month"));
    }else{
        $needed = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("last day of next month",strtotime($date)));
    }
    echo "Date after 1 month from 2020-05-31 would be : $needed";

?>

Answer 6

Please first you set your date format as like 12-12-2012

After use this function it's work properly;

$date =  date('d-m-Y',strtotime("12-12-2012 +2 Months");

Here 12-12-2012 is your date and +2 Months is increment of the month;

You also increment of Year, Date

strtotime("12-12-2012 +1 Year");

Ans is 12-12-2013