Get the date of the next occurrence of the 18th

Question

Okay, so I need to use PHP to obtain the date of the next occurrence of the 18th.

For example, let's say I ran my script on Dec. 28th, 2011. I would need some code that would be able to spit out 2012-01-18. If it were April 9th, 2011, I would need the code to spit out 2011-04-18. Make sense?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This should give you the next occurrence of the 18th

$nextDay = 18;
$nextDate = (date('d') > $nextDay) ? date('Y-m', strtotime('+1 month')).-'.$nextDay : date('Y-m').'-'.$nextDay;

Answer 2

Too easy, PHP has a LOT of date/time related functions, you should check them out here.

Example:

$year = date('Y');
$month= date('m')+1;
if ($month == '13')
    {
    $month = '01';
    $year = $year+1;
    }
echo $year."-".$month."-18";