date question

[martinb7]

hi, i have this problem with a date. to get the current month i can use date("F"); but how can i get the month before or last month?

any ideas??


Martin

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[Moonspell]

easiest way i can think of (assuming you are working back from current date) is something like

$current_date = getdate();
$check_month = $current_date("mon") - $amount_to_subtract;
$past_month = date("F",mktime(0,0,0,$check_month,$current_date("mday"),
   $current_date("year"));

you can then alter this to do the same for days of the week/years etc.