php - How to list all months between two dates

Question

I'm trying to list all months between two dates.

For example; start date is: 2010-12-02 and last date is: 2012-05-06

I want to list something like this:

2010-12
2011-01
2011-02
2011-03
2011-04
.
.
.
2012-04
2012-05

This is what I have tried and it is not working at all:

    $year_min = 2010;
    $year_max = 2012;
    $month_min = 12;
    $month_max = 5;
    for($y=$year_min; $y<=$year_max; $y++)
    {
        for($m=$month_min; $m<=$month_max; $m++)
        {
            $period[] = $y.$m;
        }
    }

Answer 1

PHP 5.3

$start    = new DateTime('2010-12-02');
$start->modify('first day of this month');
$end      = new DateTime('2012-05-06');
$end->modify('first day of next month');
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 month');
$period   = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

foreach ($period as $dt) {
    echo $dt->format("Y-m") . "<br>
";
}

See it in action

PHP 5.4 or newer

$start    = (new DateTime('2010-12-02'))->modify('first day of this month');
$end      = (new DateTime('2012-05-06'))->modify('first day of next month');
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 month');
$period   = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

foreach ($period as $dt) {
    echo $dt->format("Y-m") . "<br>
";
}

The part where we modify the start and end dates to the first of the month is important. If we didn't, and the current day higher then the last day in February (i.e. 28 in non-leap years, 29 in leap years) this would skip February.