getting a previous date?

[stuartc1]

Hi all,

can anyone help with this ? I need to get the date of last Saturday from the current date.

Cheers in advance

[KoshNaranek]

read the manual... Keyword: mktime()

[stuartc1]

Yes, I did that before I came here - I am just looking for a quick answer as is everyone else.
Answering each question with ' Look at the PHP.NET site' is OK but it doesnt really help. yes, I admit it I am lazy sometimes and I would rather try here first, before setting out for perhaps many hours of reading manuals.

:rolleyes:

[choppsta]

Try this for size....

function getlastsaturday($year, $month, $day) {
	$dayno = date("w", mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day,$year));
	$sat = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0,$month,($day - 1 - $dayno),$year));
	return $sat;
}

[stuartc1]

Yep, works like a treat.

cheers choppsta 🙂

[The_Chancer]

Even easier:

$date=strtotime("last Saturday"); //gets timestamp for date
$lastsat=date("M j Y", $date); //makes easy to read date from timestamp
echo $lastsat; //nuff said

Just thought use http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
for more date options

[choppsta]

Sweeeeeeet...

See, the manual can give you the syntax and what have you, but it's people's different techniques and ideas that are interesting and help you find better and more efficient solutions...