[RESOLVED] confused with strftime(), date(), mktime ...

[VisionsOfCody]

Hi

I'm working on an admin where orders are delivered on tuesdays and thursdays of each week

I'd like to be able to do the following :

1)when the order is made -
get the dates of all tuesdays and thursdays in the 30 days after date() and enter the date of the day selected by the client into the db - then i could select all orders to be delivered on a given tuesday or thursday

is there a simple way of doing this ?

would i need to use a loop with date("w") to get the day-of-the-week number and then somehow get the date from that ?

I've been looking at strftime(), date(), mktime etc in the manual but i just can't figure out the best way of doing this 😕

thanks for any pointers

[pete_bisby]

for ($i=1; $i < 30; $i++) {
  $new_date = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+$i, date("Y");
  if ((date("w", $new_date)=='2') || (date("w", $new_date)=='4') // Tuesday or Thursday
    // convert date and add to a list/table
  }
}

[VisionsOfCody]

that's excellent - just what i needed !

thank you