A few things I'm trying to do:
1) Turn "MM/DD/YY" into an array like that returned from getdate(). I don't want to explode it or split it, I want to get an array just as if I used getdate() when the current day was MM/DD/YY.
It just dawned on me that the timestamp parameter for getdate() is exactly what does this. So forget this one :)
2) Have a date string representing the first of the month and manipulate it to be the last day of the previous month.
This, I'm still wondering about. This is the code I have:
$month = $date['mon'];
$year = $date['year'];
if ($month == 1) {
$lastofprevmonth = date('t', strtotime('12' . '/01/' . ($year-1) ));
$lastofprevmonth = date('m/d/y', strtotime('12' . '/' . $lastofprevmonth . '/' . ($year-1)));
} else {
$lastofprevmonth = date('t', strtotime(($month-1) . '/01/' . $year));
$lastofprevmonth = date('m/d/y', strtotime(($month-1) . '/' . $lastofprevmonth . '/' . $year));
}
This is a far cry from the simple trick in other languages where you just subtract one from the first of the current month and your date then reflects the last day of the previous month. Can that be done in PHP?
Seth Willits
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