Working out last friday timestamp

[Anon]

I need to work out what the Unix timestamp would be for midday on the previous Friday. I'm sure this must be easy enough but I'm having a mental block.

Anyone had to do this kind of thing before?

[Anon]

Try This;

<?php
$timestamp = time();
$date_time_array = getdate($timestamp);
$hours = $date_time_array["hours"];
$minutes = $date_time_array["minutes"];
$seconds = $date_time_array["seconds"];
$month = $date_time_array["mon"];
$day = $date_time_array["mday"];
$year = $date_time_array["year"];

$timestamp = mktime($hours, $minutes,$seconds ,$month, $day,$year);
//This compiles the current time stamp

$date = getdate($timestamp);
while ($date[wday] !=5)
{
$day = $day-1;
$timestamp = mktime($hours, $minutes,$seconds ,$month, $day,$year);
$date = getdate($timestamp);
}
//Above code searches until it comes across the last Friday
$LastFriday = strftime( "%Y-%m-%d",$timestamp);
?>

[Anon]

I don't if this is what you want, but this may just work:

$day=date("D");
switch ($day) {
case "Sun":
$daysmore=2;
break;
case "Mon":
$daysmore=3;
break;
case "Tue":
$daysmore=4;
break;
case "Wed":
$daysmore=5;
break;
case "Thu":
$daysmore=6;
break;
case "Fri":
$daysmore=7;
break;
case "Sat":

break;

}
$timestamp=mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-$daysmore,date("Y"));

[Anon]

Cheers, that first solution works fine.