Change To The First Date Of The Month Auto..

[Skull]

Not sure if this is in the right forum but i'll just put it here anyway and if it is in the wrong place then could a mod please move it...

anyway now onto the question, I have written a script that will select everything in from a certain database after a certain date, now I want the date to always be the date of the first day of the week but to do this I always have to go into the file and manually change this line

$date = '30713'; // first number is the year, number 2 + 3 is the month and number 4+5 is the date 

Is there anyway at all that I can get the script to automatically change the date in the above line to the date of the first day of the week or will I just have to continue editing the file manually?

thx in advance

[Weedpacket]

Fortunately, my memory is long enough that I can remember answering a very similar question in the past. Basically, you find out what day of the week it is today, and from that you can work out how many days to count back to find the first day of the week.

But I wonder about your date variable - I take it you don't expect any of the code using it to still be around in seven years' time?

[TTT]

manual =>
strftime =>
%u - weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday