[RESOLVED] get start and end date for the next few week

[nikko50]

Hi all. Hope the holidays have been good to you

My question is I would like to create an array or something to get the "startDate" which is Sunday and "endDate" which is Saturday for the next 8 weeks. How can I do this?? So if today is Saturday the 27th I would like to return endDate = "12-27-2008" and startDate is "12-21-2008" and so forth for the next 7 weeks.

Tracy

God Bless

[NogDog]

<?php
$date = time();
$weeks = array();
for($ix = 0; $ix < 7; $ix++)
{
   $date = strtotime('next Sunday', $date);
   $weeks[$ix]['Sun'] = date('Y-m-d', $date);
   $date = strtotime('next Saturday', $date);
   $weeks[$ix]['Sat'] = date('Y-m-d', $date);
}
echo "<pre>".print_r($weeks, 1)."</pre>";

[nikko50]

Hi. I'm trying to make a small change to your code so that the array begins with the current weeks Sunday and Saturday but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong🙁

<?php
$date = time();
$weeks = array();




$ix = 0;

   $date = strtotime('this Sunday', $date);
   $weeks[$ix]['Sun'] = date('Y-m-d', $date);
   $date = strtotime('this Saturday', $date);
   $weeks[$ix]['Sat'] = date('Y-m-d', $date);

for($ix = 1; $ix < 7; $ix++)
{
   $date = strtotime('next Sunday', $date);
   $weeks[$ix]['Sun'] = date('Y-m-d', $date);
   $date = strtotime('next Saturday', $date);
   $weeks[$ix]['Sat'] = date('Y-m-d', $date);
}
echo "<pre>".print_r($weeks, 1)."</pre>"; 


?>

[Weedpacket]

The current day of the week can be found with date('w');. Sunday of the current week was that many days ago. Saturday is six days after that, and Sunday of next week is the day after Saturday.

// Doesn't matter if $sunday to be zero or negative
$sunday = date('d')-date('w'); 
$month = date('m');
$year = date('Y');

// In fact it doesn't matter that mktime() here will be asked to calculate
// the timestamp for Saturday the 83rd of December 2008. It's
// smart enough to figure out that that's the 21st of February 2009.
for($i=0; $i<7; $i++)
{
    $weeks[$i]['Sun'] = mktime(0,0,0, $month, $sunday+7*$i, $year);
    $weeks[$i]['Sat'] = mktime(0,0,0, $month, $sunday+7*$i+6, $year);
}

[nikko50]

Good stuff. Thanks for the tutorial weedpacket!