[Resolved] determining new month; date problems

[emrys404]

Hello,

I am drawing a timestamp out of a database and i wish to generate the dates of the next 4 thursdays. I run into problems when one of the thursdays falls into a new month. ex) 10, 17, 24, next one would be 31 however that month only had 30 days....
How can i determine if it falls into a new month that has less than 31 days?
Thanks, let me know if i can be more informative.
Thanks for any and all help

-emrys

[LordShryku]

How are you determining the corresponding Thursdays? PHP's date functions would gracefully handle if it went into a new month...

[emrys404]

I wasnt sure how to determine the thursdays, was thinking of finding the next thursday then incrimenting by 7 then checking each incrimentation to see if it was a new month... I'm am pretty sure there is a much better way of doing this. What do you recommened?

Thanks for any and all help.
-emrhs

[LordShryku]

I recommend using strtotime("this thursday") to find the coming thursday, and use the same + x days to find each one after that.

[emrys404]

thats a very nifty function.
okay so i end up with something like this:
$blar = strtotime ("Thursday");
$blar1 = strtotime ("Thursday +7 day");
$blar2 = strtotime ("Thursday +14 day");
$blar3 = strtotime ("Thursday +21 day");
thats cool. Is there a more efficient way to do this?

THanks. this is great

-emrys

[LordShryku]

Yeah, that functions in my top twenty used. I'm guessing you'll want some sort of readable format for them, so just tack date() on there, and you should be good to go...

$blar  = date("m/d/Y", strtotime("Thursday")); 
$blar1 = date("m/d/Y", strtotime("Thursday +7 day")); 
$blar2 = date("m/d/Y", strtotime("Thursday +14 day")); 
$blar3 = date("m/d/Y", strtotime("Thursday +21 day"));

[emrys404]

Thanks for all the help.

-emrys