How to find the last day of the month from date?

Question

How can I get the last day of the month in PHP? Given: $a_date = "2009-11-23" I want 2009-11-30; and given $a_date = "2009-12-23" I want 2009-12-31.

Answer 1

<?php

$a_date = "2009-11-23";

// Get the last day of the month

$lastDayOfMonth = date("Y-m-t", strtotime($a_date));

echo $lastDayOfMonth;

?>