Get first day of month from a given date

In Microsoft Access I can do this:

MyDate = !TransactionDate
MyNewDate = DateSerial(Year(MyDate), Month(MyDate), 1)

For example if MyDate is 02/25/2020, MyNewDate would be 02/01/2020

How would you do that using php? Thanks

Level 73

In Laravel there is a library used to do this called Carbon, so just as simple as this:

Carbon\Carbon::parse('02/25/2020')->startOfMonth()->format('m/d/Y')

Level 1

@nakov thank you, but what would it be in plain php, no carbon.

Best Answer

Level 73

echo date('m/01/Y', strtotime('02/25/2020'));

Level 1

Thank you.

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