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

In order to get no. of days in month you can use either

date('t')

OR

cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 8, 2003)

And if you wish to check if today is the last day of month us can use

if(date('d')==date('d',strtotime('last day of month'))){
//your code
}

strtotime offers many great features so check them out first

Answer 2

     echo date('t'); /// it return last date of current month

Answer 3

Try to use this:

date('t');

Answer 4

Use php's function: cal_days_in_month

More details here

Answer 5

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
}

Answer 6

Using the modern DateTime object class:

$date = new DateTime('last day of this month');