Last Tuesday of Each Month

andyfork

Hi all,

I am reasonably proficient in PHP having written http://southfields.net from scratch.

However, I am stumped at getting PHP to work out what the last Tuesday of every month is for all months EXCEPT August and December.

So, what I am trying to do is, on a resident's association website I want to say - "The next meeting will be on Tuesday 31st July 2007" the date bit of the sentence being worked out by PHP. The meeting is ALWAYS on the last tuesday of the month and I would like to work out the last tuesday of this month except for August and Dec when there are no meetings.

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers,

Andy.

NogDog

This should give you some food for thought:

<?php
function lastTuesday($month, $year)
{
   if(!checkdate($month, 1, $year))
   {
      return(FALSE);
   }
   return date('Y/m/d', strtotime('Last Tuesday', 
          strtotime('+1 Month', strtotime("$year/$month/1"))));
}
echo "<ul>\n";
foreach(array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11) as $mo)
{
   echo "<li>".lastTuesday($mo, 2007)."</li>\n";
}
echo "</ul>";

Outputs is:

2007/01/30
2007/02/27
2007/03/27
2007/04/24
2007/05/29
2007/06/26
2007/07/31
2007/09/25
2007/10/30
2007/11/27

rajug

Here if it makes you little bit easier to understand:

$date = '2007-08-02';
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("last Tuesday", strtotime("+1 Month", strtotime("$date"))));

andyfork

Guys, thanks so, so much. Both solutions excellent - spoilt for choice now!

Thanks indeed.

Best wishes,

Andy.