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Posted by meltedown on 11/21/06 07:04
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> meltedown wrote:
>> petersprc wrote:
>>
>>> You could work on the text:
>>>
>>> $date = '2006-11-19';
>>> $newDate = substr($date, 0, strrpos($date, '-')) . '-01';
>>>
>>> meltedown wrote:
>>>
>>>> petersprc wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You could do something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> <?
>>>>>
>>>>> function firstDayOfMonth($str = '2006-11-19')
>>>>> {
>>>>> $day = date('l', strtotime(date('Y/m/01', strtotime($str))));
>>>>> return $day;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> echo firstDayOfMonth();
>>>>>
>>>>> ?>
>>>>>
>>>>> Change the date format string if you want other information about the
>>>>> first day of the month.
>>>>>
>>>>> meltedown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If I have an sql date, such as "2006-11-19" is there a way using
>>>>>> either
>>>>>> sql or php date and time functions to get the date of the the
>>>>>> first day
>>>>>> of the month ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, but I want the date, not the weekday. For 2006-11-19 it
>>>> would be
>>>> 2006-11-01
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes I know but I'd rather not.
>
> Why not? It's probably the most efficient way of doing it.
>
Could be, and it could be fine, but it treats a date datatype as a
string datatype. I'd rather stick to strict datatypes which to me means
its less likely to have some unforseen problem. I guess its just a
habit I got from starting out with C++
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