how to accomplish this ?

[PHPycho]

Hello forums!!
Suppose consider the following case:
I had the following date range:
From: 2006-05-10
To: 2007-08-15
Q's?
1> How to find the no of saturdays within the range with appropriate date format ie YYYY-mm-dd .

2> How to find the first and last saturday of each month within the range ?

Thanks in advance for the kind help.

[phaseonemedia]

im not gonna write the code for ya, but im sure youd make heavy usage of this one
http://us3.php.net/strtotime

[jazz_snob]

Look at the pear date package. I suggest you download the package then use phpdoc to create 1/2-way decent documentation from the sources so you can figure out how to use it because the enduser documentation at pear.php.net is garbage.

I think if you find the first Saturday you're in good shape, cause all successive Saturdays are 7 days away.

[PHPycho]

I got the solution;Here it goes:

<?php
// convert to timestamp
$start = strtotime( '2006-05-10 00:00:00');
$end = strtotime( '2007-08-15 00:00:00');

// initialize an array to hold the saturdays
$saturdays = array();
$monthSaturdays = array();

// this is for question 1
for ( $i = $start; $i  <= $end; $i += 86400 ) {
   if ( (int)date( 'w', $i ) == 6 ) {
        // store the saturdays
        $saturdays[] = date( 'Y-m-d', $i );
    }
}

// this is for question 2
for ( $i = $start; $i <= $end; $i += 86400 ) {
    $currentMonth = date( 'Y-m', $i );
    if ( ! isset( $monthSaturdays[$currentMonth] ) ) {
        $monthSaturdays[$currentMonth] = array( null, null );
    }
    // store the first Saturday of the month (index 0 will hold the firs, index 1 will hold the last)
    if ( ! isset( $monthSaturdays[$currentMonth][0] ) && (int)date( 'w', $i ) == 6 ) {
        $monthSaturdays[$currentMonth][0] = date( 'Y-m-d', $i );   

    }
    // the last Saturday will be automatically set
    if ( (int)date( 'w', $i ) == 6 ) {
        $monthSaturdays[$currentMonth][1] = date( 'Y-m-d', $i ); 
    }
}

?>