How do I get next month date from today's date and insert it in my database?

Question

I have two columns in my db: start_date and end_date, which are both DATE types. My code is updating the dates as follows:

Answer 1

The accepted answer works only if you want exactly 31 days later. That means if you are using the date "2013-05-31" that you expect to not be in June which is not what I wanted.

If you want to have the next month, I suggest you to use the current year and month but keep using the 1st.

$date = date("Y-m-01");
$newdate = strtotime ( '+1 month' , strtotime ( $date ) ) ;

This way, you will be able to get the month and year of the next month without having a month skipped.

Answer 2

You do not actually need PHP functions to achieve this. You can already do simple date manipulations directly in SQL, for example:

$sql1 = "
    UPDATE `users` SET 
    `start_date` = CURDATE(), 
    `end_date` = DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH)  
    WHERE `users`.`id` = '" . $id . "';
";

Refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_addtime

Answer 3

Be careful, because sometimes strtotime("+1 months") can skip month numbers.

Example:

$today = date("Y-m-d"); // 2012-01-30
$next_month = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("$today +1 month"));

If today is January, next month should be February which has 28 or 29 days, but PHP will return March as next month, not February.

Answer 4

This function returns any correct number of months positively or negatively. Found in the comment section here:

function addMonthsToTime($numMonths = 1, $timeStamp = null){
    $timeStamp === null and $timeStamp = time();//Default to the present
    $newMonthNumDays =  date('d',strtotime('last day of '.$numMonths.' months', $timeStamp));//Number of days in the new month
    $currentDayOfMonth = date('d',$timeStamp);

    if($currentDayOfMonth > $newMonthNumDays){
      $newTimeStamp = strtotime('-'.($currentDayOfMonth - $newMonthNumDays).' days '.$numMonths.' months', $timeStamp);
    } else {
    $newTimeStamp = strtotime($numMonths.' months', $timeStamp);
    }

    return $newTimeStamp;
}

Answer 5

If you want a specific date in next month, you can do this:

// Calculate the timestamp
$expire = strtotime('first day of +1 month');

// Format the timestamp as a string
echo date('m/d/Y', $expire);

Note that this actually works more reliably where +1 month can be confusing. For example...

Current Day   | first day of +1 month     | +1 month
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2015-01-01    | 2015-02-01                | 2015-02-01
2015-01-30    | 2015-02-01                | 2015-03-02  (skips Feb)
2015-01-31    | 2015-02-01                | 2015-03-03  (skips Feb)
2015-03-31    | 2015-04-01                | 2015-05-01  (skips April)
2015-12-31    | 2016-01-01                | 2016-01-31

Answer 6

date("Y-m-d",strtotime("last day of +1 month",strtotime($anydate)))