I'm trying to take a time string (2006-07-11) and find a month before (2006-06-11) and several other times. How can I create the comparitive string? I'm having a hardtime figuring it out with date(), everytime I try to minus time it literally looses the date.

Hey SlayersOtaku,

I am not sure what you're asking but the easiest way is to use strtotime.

For example, if I wanted to know what last Month is from today, I would do:

PHP Code:

<?php
$lastMonth = strtotime('last Month');
echo date('Y-m-d', $lastMonth);
?>

and the results should be this year, last month, this day.

Alternatively this is the same as doing:

PHP Code:

$lastMonth = strtotime('-1 Month'); 


Maybe that's what you're after?

If it's not, then provide examples of what you've been trying so I can get an idea.

Cheers,

MC

I wasn't real sure the best way to ask it, probably over stated. Anyways that's exactly what I needed. Thanks!