How to get the number of days of the current month?

Question

I want to check if today is the last day of the month, but I don't really know how.

Can you help?

Limann

I came here to understand how to get the number of days of the current month (< if you are interested in it, read about the cal_days_in_month function). The title should be something like "PHP: How to check if today is the last day of the current month?" – Musicology

Answer 1

There is probably a more elegant solution than this but you can just use php's date function:

$maxDays=date('t');
$currentDayOfMonth=date('j');

if($maxDays == $currentDayOfMonth){
  //Last day of month
}else{
  //Not last day of the month
}

Managua

The time() calls are redundant since the current timestamp is what's used by default. Not that it matters though :) – Villager

Answer 2

Try to use this:

date('t');

Hylophagous

Answer 3

date('t');

or you may use

cal_days_in_month.

see here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.cal-days-in-month.php

Kenward

cal_days_in_month is better method, you can give any specific month and year for it – Aphoristic

Answer 4

In order to get no. of days in month you can use either

date('t')

OR

cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 8, 2003)

And if you wish to check if today is the last day of month us can use

if(date('d')==date('d',strtotime('last day of month'))){
//your code
}

strtotime offers many great features so check them out first

Saltatory

Answer 5

Use php's function: cal_days_in_month

More details here

cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 8, 2003);

Bessie

Answer 6

Use date function:

if (date('t') == date('j'))
{
   ...
}

Refrigerant

Answer 7

$date = new DateTime('last day of this month');
$numDaysOfCurrentMonth = $date->format('d');

Dacosta

Answer 8

this is to find the days in any month:

$days = intval(date('t', strtotime($desiredDate)));

Benisch

Answer 9

     echo date('t'); /// it return last date of current month

Hearse

Answer 10

And here it is, wrapped up as a function:

function is_last_day_of_month($timestamp = NULL) {
    if(is_null($timestamp))
        $timestamp = time();
    return date('t', $timestamp) == date('j', $timestamp);
}

Lentil

Answer 11

Using the modern DateTime object class:

$date = new DateTime('last day of this month');

Taker

Answer 12

With DateTime ;)

    $date = new \DateTime('now');
    var_dump($date->format('t'));

Veneration