php - strtotime 'next month' not acting as expected (today that is)

Question

This is only happening on the 31st so far

echo date('F',strtotime('this month')); //May
echo date('F',strtotime('next month'));//July
echo date('F',strtotime('+1 month'));//July

As far as I understand June comes after May. But i'm guessing php is being lazy in just adding 31 days from now, skipping an entire month.

How can I safely get the next month regardless of lenght? Ideally using strttotime

edit Forgot to mention, why i was hoping to use strtotime is that I'm using a search box to find events interpreting user input strtotime

Answer 1

The most robust way is probably:

date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('n') + 1, 1))