How to get previous year using PHP

Question

How am I able to get the value of the previous year using PHP. Are there any predefined functions for it?

Answer 1

If you want to display the entire date exactly 1 year ago, including the month and year:

 <?php echo date("M d Y", strtotime("-1 year")); ?>

Answer 2

This thread needs an update.

Nowadays you would use the PHP date-time object and do something like this:

$lastYear = new DateTime();
$lastYear->sub(new DateInterval('P1Y'));
echo $lastYear->format('Y');

Answer 3

you can give a value of the input tag as :

<?php echo date("Y-m-d",strtotime("-1 year"));?>

Answer 4

try

echo date("Y",strtotime("-1 year"));

Answer 5

Try This

date('Y', strtotime('last year'));

Answer 6

$year = date("Y");
$previousyear = $year -1;

http://php.net/manual/de/function.date.php