[RESOLVED] Get Week Date Range strtotime???

[fuzzy1]

Hey All,
As usual, PHP date functions and strtotime are kicking my butt once again! Grrrr
I'm trying to put together a little personal menu planner and would like to implement a week view option.
As I haven't found any event schedulers or anything of the kind that suits my needs,
I thought I'd just "whip one up quick like" 😉 snicker snicker.
Of course if anyone knows of something ready made out there, I'm all ears!
Meanwhile, I'd appreciate any insight into why the following doesn't work (PHP version :5.1.2).

$thisyear = date('Y');
$thisweek = date('W');//might I want to employ strtotime(this week)???

week($thisyear, $thisweek);

function week($year, $week)
{
    $from = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("{$year}-W{$week}-1")); //should return the date of Monday???
   $to = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("{$year}-W{$week}-7")); //should return the date of Sunday???
       echo "Week ".$week." in ".$year." is from ".$from." to ".$to;
}

//Returns: Week 35 in 2008 is from 1969-12-31 to 1969-12-31

[fuzzy1]

Okay... how about we try this another way!
Found the following at http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4722.html and modified to format date like Sunday Aug 24, 2008 and to set week START as SUNDAY instead of MONDAY, and week END as SATURDAY instead of SUNDAY.:p

function getWeekRange(&$start_date, &$end_date, $offset=0) { 
        $start_date = ''; 
        $end_date = '';    

        $week = date('W'); 
        $week = $week - $offset; 
        $date = date('Y-m-d'); 

    $i = 0; 
    while(date('W', strtotime("-$i day")) >= $week) {                        
        $start_date = date('Y-m-d, ', strtotime("-$i day")); 
        $i++;        
    }    

    list($yr, $mo, $da) = explode('-', $start_date);    
    $end_date = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, $mo, $da + 6, $yr)); 
    $start_date = date('l M d, Y, ', strtotime("$start_date -1 day")); 		
    $end_date = date('l M d, Y, ', strtotime("$end_date -1 day"));
} 
getWeekRange($start, $end); 
echo "<b>Week date Start:</b> ".$start. "<br><b>Week date End:</b> ".$end."<br>"; 

[Weedpacket]

$thisyear = date('Y');
$thisweek = date('W');//might I want to employ strtotime(this week)???

week($thisyear, $thisweek);

function week($year, $week)
{
    $from = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("{$year}-W{$week}-1")); //should return the date of Monday???
   $to = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("{$year}-W{$week}-7")); //should return the date of Sunday???
       echo "Week ".$week." in ".$year." is from ".$from." to ".$to;
}

//Returns: Week 35 in 2008 is from 2008-08-25 to 2008-08-31 

Works fine for me. (PHP 5.2.6).

[fuzzy1]

See!!!@ %
It's just that kind of thing that makes me think I struggle WAY more with date time
operations than is necessary because it damn sure doesn't work fine for ME!

I try to console myself that I make up in some small part for not contributing more to the forums
(helping others figure out their problems) with a concerted effort not to ask frivolous questions
(trying to figure out my own solutions) taking some pride (misplaced as that might be)
in the notion that my posts are often challenging/interesting enough to elicit thoughtful and frequently
numerous responses from the forum's heavy hitters like you!

😉Honestly Weedpacket, I would have expected more from YOU than...

Weedpacket;10884268 wrote:

Works fine for me. (PHP 5.2.6).

WTF Over? Why doesn't it work for me???
Is it possible I have something mis-configured in my php.ini???
Is there anyone out there on a 5.1 build for whom this "works fine"???
Cheers

[fuzzy1]

And if that's not weird enough, I just noticed that the transcript of Weedpacket's post
(emailed to me from PHP Builder's email notification script) actually reads...

}

//Returns: Week 35 in 2008 is from 1969-12-31 to 1969-12-31

Works fine for me. (PHP 5.2.6).

[Weedpacket]

Yes, because I decided to edit it three minutes afterward to include the actual result I got, instead of just leaving it totally unchanged.

strtotime() has seen some changes since 5.1.2, but nothing specifically mentioning this format appears in the changelog (maybe no-one else noticed).