first date of the month in php code example

Example 1: get first day of current month php

<?php
    // First day of this month
    $d = new DateTime('first day of this month');
    echo $d->format('jS, F Y');
?>

Example 2: php get current month first date

//get first day of the current month 
$start = date("Y-m-1 00:00:00");
//get current date of the month
$end = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

//query data for the current month so far
$query = $this->db_model->run_query("select column_1, column_2 from table where date_column BETWEEN '".$start."' AND '".$end."'");