PHP - How to get the last occurrence of a month?-CodePudding

I need to define the start and end dates of a tax year, but I don't seem to find anything with relative formats which gives me something like this:
strtotime('6th day of last april') (doesn't work)

The thing is that if today is for example the 10th of May, then the year is the same; however, if we are in February, the year must be the past one.

I assume there is a better way to determine the year rather than by using if statements? But I can't find this case in the dates related documentation.

EDIT: According to this answer, there seems to be no direct syntax for it and some code is required.

CodePudding user response：

If the year is missing in a date expression, Datetime takes the current year for the year. However, the date you want to create contains a condition. If the created date is in the future, 1 year should be deducted. This cannot be solved with the relative DateTime formats. As an alternative to the if construct, I can only offer the ternary operator:

$date = ($date = date_create('Apr 06')) < date_create('Today') 
  ? $date 
  : $date->modify('-1 Year')
;

CodePudding user response：

A posible solution would be:

$date=strtotime('Apr 06');
if($date > time()) $date = strtotime("-1 year", $date);