get previous month in php code example

Example 1: get current year php

<?php echo date("Y"); ?>

Example 2: get last month php

$currentMonth = date('M');// if number, then date('m');
//Last month
$lastMonth = Date("F", strtotime("first day of previous month");
$nextMonth = Date("F", strtotime("first day of next month");

Example 3: last day of previous month in php

$lastDay = date('t',strtotime('last month'));

print_r($lastDay);

Example 4: php date function get previous month

$tgl = '25 january 2012';

$prevmonth = date("M Y",mktime(0,0,0,date("m", strtotime($tgl))-1,1,date("Y", strtotime($tgl))));
echo $prevmonth;