Question

How can I get last year’s start and end date using PHP code? Is it possible?

Answer 1

The first day is always January 1, the last day is always December 31. You’re really only changing the year attached to it. Depending on how you want the date formatted, you have a couple possibilities…

1. If you just want to display the physical date:

   $year = date('Y') - 1; // Get current year and subtract 1
   $start = "January 1st, {$year}";
   $end = "December 31st, {$year}";
   

2. If you need the timestamp for both those dates:

   $year = date('Y') - 1; // Get current year and subtract 1
   $start = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, $year);
   $end = mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 31, $year);
   

Very simple stuff. You can manually specify which year if you wanted too. The premise is the same.