How can PHP developers efficiently summarize sales data for a specific month using date comparisons?

To efficiently summarize sales data for a specific month using date comparisons in PHP, developers can filter the sales data based on the month and year, then calculate the total sales amount for that specific month. 

// Sample sales data array with date and amount
$salesData = [
    ['date' => '2022-01-05', 'amount' => 100],
    ['date' => '2022-02-15', 'amount' => 150],
    ['date' => '2022-02-20', 'amount' => 200],
    ['date' => '2022-03-10', 'amount' => 120],
];

// Specify the month and year to summarize sales data for
$month = 2;
$year = 2022;

// Initialize total sales amount for the specified month
$totalSales = 0;

// Loop through sales data and sum up sales amount for the specified month
foreach ($salesData as $sale) {
    $saleDate = date('m-Y', strtotime($sale['date']));
    if ($saleDate == $month . '-' . $year) {
        $totalSales += $sale['amount'];
    }
}

// Output the total sales amount for the specified month
echo 'Total sales for ' . $month . '/' . $year . ': $' . $totalSales;

Keywords

PHP date comparison sales data summarize efficiency

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