In this tutorial we'll cover how to get the first and the last day of the current month. This is particularly helpful when you want to query a database to find dates that fall within a specific month. These could be birthdays, anniversaries or just general reminders. For the sake of this tutorial, please note that the date at the time of writing is 2023-01-16. Get the first day of the current month $first_day_of_month = date('Y-m-01'); echo $first_day_of_month; The above code will output: 2023-01-01 Get the first day of any month If you would like to get the first date of any month, use the strtotime function and pass the date as a string as shown below: $first_day_of_month = date('Y-m-01', strtotime('next month')); echo $first_day_of_month; The above code will output: 2023-02-01 Get the last day of the month $last_day_of_month = date('Y-m-t'); echo $last_day_of_month; The above code will output: 2023-01-31 I hope you found this helpfu