DateInterval with one month in php array - php

Question

How can I get month Interval in php using DateInterval.
If I chose 05 Aug 2015 as start date and 17 Oct 2015 as end date, then my array output should be divided in 3 arrays:
1st array for 05 Aug 2015 - 31 Aug 2015
2nd array for 01 Sept 2015 - 30 Sept 2015
3rd array for 01 Oct 2015 - 17 Oct 2015
We can achieve this thing by php DateInterval function?

Answer 1

you can try the below code. I am not sure but you might get what you are looking for
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 month');
$period = new DatePeriod($d1, $interval, $d2);
foreach ($period as $dt) {
if($dt->format("Y-m") == date("Y-m", strtotime($date1))){
$date_array[$dt->format("Y-m")] = array(
'start_date' => $startDate,
'end_date' => $dt->format("Y-m-t"),
);
}else if($dt->format("Y-m") == date("Y-m", strtotime($date2))){
$date_array[$dt->format("Y-m")] = array(
'start_date' => $dt->format("Y-m-").'01',
'end_date' => $endDate,
);
}else{
$date_array[$dt->format("Y-m")] = array(
'start_date' => $dt->format("Y-m-").'01',
'end_date' => $dt->format("Y-m-t"),
);
}
}
foreach( $date_array as $d_key=>$da ){
/* your stuff */
}

Answer 2

This is pretty straightforward if you familiarise yourself with some of PHP's helpful built-in Date/Time classes.
You can use DateTime, DateInterval and DatePeriod to achieve your results. For example:
<?php
// create start/end dates and interval
$start = new DateTime('05 Aug 2015');
$end = new DateTime('17 Oct 2015');
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
// DatePeriod excludes the last day
// so bump the end date by one
$end->modify('+1 day');
// create a DatePeriod for each day in range
$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);
$months = [];
foreach ($period as $date) {
$months[$date->format('F')][] = $date->format('m/d/Y');
}
print_r($months);
Yields:
Array
(
[August] => Array
(
[0] => 08/05/2015
[1] => 08/06/2015
[2] => 08/07/2015
[3] => 08/08/2015
[4] => 08/09/2015
[5] => 08/10/2015
[6] => 08/11/2015
[7] => 08/12/2015
[8] => 08/13/2015
[9] => 08/14/2015
[10] => 08/15/2015
[11] => 08/16/2015
[12] => 08/17/2015
[13] => 08/18/2015
[14] => 08/19/2015
[15] => 08/20/2015
[16] => 08/21/2015
[17] => 08/22/2015
[18] => 08/23/2015
[19] => 08/24/2015
[20] => 08/25/2015
[21] => 08/26/2015
[22] => 08/27/2015
[23] => 08/28/2015
[24] => 08/29/2015
[25] => 08/30/2015
[26] => 08/31/2015
)
[September] => Array
(
[0] => 09/01/2015
[1] => 09/02/2015
[2] => 09/03/2015
[3] => 09/04/2015
[4] => 09/05/2015
[5] => 09/06/2015
[6] => 09/07/2015
[7] => 09/08/2015
[8] => 09/09/2015
[9] => 09/10/2015
[10] => 09/11/2015
[11] => 09/12/2015
[12] => 09/13/2015
[13] => 09/14/2015
[14] => 09/15/2015
[15] => 09/16/2015
[16] => 09/17/2015
[17] => 09/18/2015
[18] => 09/19/2015
[19] => 09/20/2015
[20] => 09/21/2015
[21] => 09/22/2015
[22] => 09/23/2015
[23] => 09/24/2015
[24] => 09/25/2015
[25] => 09/26/2015
[26] => 09/27/2015
[27] => 09/28/2015
[28] => 09/29/2015
[29] => 09/30/2015
)
[October] => Array
(
[0] => 10/01/2015
[1] => 10/02/2015
[2] => 10/03/2015
[3] => 10/04/2015
[4] => 10/05/2015
[5] => 10/06/2015
[6] => 10/07/2015
[7] => 10/08/2015
[8] => 10/09/2015
[9] => 10/10/2015
[10] => 10/11/2015
[11] => 10/12/2015
[12] => 10/13/2015
[13] => 10/14/2015
[14] => 10/15/2015
[15] => 10/16/2015
[16] => 10/17/2015
)
)
Just to note: you specified that you wanted to break the result into three separate arrays. I assume the results will be dynamic - in which the number of months could vary - so I think you are better generating a multidimensional array of results.
In the example above I used the month names as keys. $date->format('F') returns a full textual representation of a month, such as January or March.
If you want to get a list of the months contained in the $months array you can just do:
print_r(array_keys($months));
Which returns the keys, and should give you enough information to access the data for your needs:
Array
(
[0] => August
[1] => September
[2] => October
)
Hope this helps :)