How to get the previous year from the date

i want to calculate the year start from the working day until now. i can get the date of the working date but if i just want to get the year of the working date, is it possible? Can anyone help me? i not using the TIMESTAMP in declare date in database. i using DATE. thanks!!

 

Your question in the post is not clear to me, but as far question in your topic title, code is:

$previous_year = intval(date("Y", $TIMESTAMP)) - 1;

regards

 

Ha ha - yeh that doesn't make a great deal of sense! What do you mean by

And what is the "working date"?!

 

$last_year = date('Y',strtotime(' -1 Year',strtotime($date_from_db)));

 

thank jestep. I already can get the ans from your post. And hundred of appologize because of my broken english making reader feel difficulty to understand what i wanted.

$year = date('Y',strtotime(' 0 Year',strtotime($date_from_db)));