Find next occurrence of date - php

Question

I want to find the next occurrence of date from the current date.
For example, imagine I want to find 20th of the month from current date
If current date is 10th october then return the result 2014-10-20 (Y-m-d)
If current date is 22nd october then return the result 2014-11-20 (Y-m-d)

Answer 1

I created a solution just now using a while loop.
$oldd= "2014-06-20";
$newdate = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($oldd."+1months"));
while(strtotime($newdate) <= strtotime(date("Y-m-d")))
{
$newdate = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($newdate."+1months"));
}
echo $newdate;

Answer 2

manually and pass that to strtotime(). The time information you need to extract from the reference time string. Like this:
$refdate = '2014-02-25 10:30:00';
$timestamp = strtotime($refdate);
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',
strtotime("next Thursday " . date('H:i:s', $timestamp), $timestamp)
);
same results could be achieved using string concatenation:
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("next Thursday", $timestamp)
. ' ' . date('H:i:s', $timestamp);

Answer 3

another way, you can use methods of DateTime object, PHP has really rich API in dealing with date time.
$current_date = new DateTime('2014-06-20');
if ($current_date->format('d') >= 20) {
// $current_date->modify('last day of this month')->modify("+20 days");
$current_date->modify('first day of next month')->modify("+19 days");
}else{
$current_date->modify('first day of this month')->modify("+19 days");
}
echo $current_date->format("Y-m-d");
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.modify.php
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.relative.php