[Resolved] Calculating first day of current week

[Cambora]

Ok, this is simply everything I need help with:

I want to get the first date of current week in d-m-Y format.
I've tried with Date(), mkdate() ans strotime, but haven't succeeded yet. I'm rather new to php...

Any help would be appreciated! 😃

[Edit]
One solution would be to get current day (ie wednesday) and then calculate current date -2, but there must be a better way to do this [/Edit]

[drawmack]

First you would write a function like this. Note that this function treats sunday as the first day of the week and not monday as in your post, but that could be fixed pretty easily.

<?php
function first_day_of_week($date = '') {
    if($date == '') $date = time();

$day = date('w',$date);

//the number of seconds since the most recent sunday.
$offset = $day * 86400;

$start_of_week = $date - $offset;
return $start_of_week;
} //end first_day_of_week
?>

The you would call it like this

<?php
    $time = first_day_of_week();
    echo "Today is " . date('d-m-Y') . " Sunday was " . date('d-m-Y',$time);
?>

[Cambora]

Thanks for the fast reply, it works perfectly!!