Calculate Number Days w/o Sat & Sun

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Anyone have a quick function that will calculate the number of days since the 1st of the month that were not saturdays and sundays?

I need workdays only since the 1st to $today

[tsinka]

Hi,

I think there are several ways but one could be to use mktimestamp and getdate like e.g.

$today = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y"));

$firstDay=2;
$numDays=0;

while (($theday = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),$firstDay,date("Y"))) <= $today) {
    $dateArray = getDate($theday);

if ($dateArray["weekday"] != "Sunday" && $dateArray["weekday"] != "Saturday")
    $numDays++;
}

mktime creates a timestamp for a given date. We walk from the second day, which might be the first work day after the 1st of the month to today and increment a variable if it is not a Saturday or a Sunday.

Regards,
Thomas

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I don't think that the while loop is working (and Im not so familiar with date functions)....

It appears to be stuck in an infinite loop here though....

[tsinka]

Aaargh,

I forgot to increment $firstDay. Just place a $firstDay++ before the closing } of the while loop.

sorry, sorry, sorry 🙁

I forgot to test it 🙂

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actually I figured it out...here is what I did

$today = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y"));
$today_day=date(j);
$firstDay=1;
$numDays=0;
while ($firstDay <= $today_day){
    $theday = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),$firstDay,date("Y"));
    $dateArray = getDate($theday);
    if ($dateArray["weekday"] != "Sunday" && $dateArray["weekday"] != "Saturday")
        { $numDays++; }
    $firstDay++;
    unset($dateArray);
}