[RESOLVED] help with date

scialom

Hello,

I need to get a specific day of the week from today till a specific date. I have these var:

$day  = 'Mon';
$today = date('Y-m-d');
$date_to_run = '2009-12-31';

So what I need is a loop to run from today till the end of the year and find all the Mondays dates.

Is there a simple way to do so?

Many thanks!

foyer

http://www.php.net/mktime

bradgrafelman

Another option would be to use the DateTime class:

// CONFIG
$day  = 'Mon';
$today = date('Y-m-d');
$date_to_run = '2009-12-31';
$dates = array();
// END CONFIG

$date = new DateTime();
$end_date = new DateTime($date_to_run);

if($date->format('D') == 'Mon')
	$dates[] = $date->format('Y-m-d');

$date->modify("next $day");

while($date->format('U') <= $end_date->format('U')) {
	$dates[] = $date->format('Y-m-d');
	$date->modify("next $day");
}

echo "<pre>" . print_r($dates, TRUE) . "</pre>";

nrg_alpha

Nice one, Brad! I keep forgetting about that damn built in DateTime class lol
Granted, one suggestion (for the sake of making it all comply with strict standards):

// CONFIG
date_default_timezone_set('America/Montreal'); // change this to the appropriate time zone...  - or- use the date.timezone setting or TZ environment variable.
$day  = 'Mon';
$today = date('Y-m-d');
$date_to_run = '2009-12-31';
$dates = array();
// END CONFIG

Otherwise, you get unsafe warnings via error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT).

scialom

thanks guys that did the trick!