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Nandu
Nandu

Reputation: 3126

Get day names between two date in PHP

How to get name of days between two dates in PHP?

Input:

Start Date: 01-01-2013
End date: 05-01-2013

Output:

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Tried code

$from_date ='01-01-2013';
$to_date ='05-01-2013';

$number_of_days = count_days(strtotime($from_date),strtotime($to_date));

for($i = 1; $i<=$number_of_days; $i++)
{
    $day = Date('l',mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d')+$i,date('y')));
    echo "<br>".$day;       
}


function count_days( $a, $b )
{       
    $gd_a = getdate( $a );
    $gd_b = getdate( $b );
    
    $a_new = mktime( 12, 0, 0, $gd_a['mon'], $gd_a['mday'], $gd_a['year'] );
    $b_new = mktime( 12, 0, 0, $gd_b['mon'], $gd_b['mday'], $gd_b['year'] );
    
    return round( abs( $a_new - $b_new ) / 86400 );
}

I saw the post Finding date of particular day between two dates PHP

But I don't got my result
Please help me

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5485

Answers (3)

ShuklaSannidhya
ShuklaSannidhya

Reputation: 8976

<?php
    function printDays($from, $to) {
        $from_date=strtotime($from);
        $to_date=strtotime($to);
        $current=$from_date;
        while($current<=$to_date) {
            $days[]=date('l', $current);
            $current=$current+86400;
        }

        foreach($days as $key=> $day) {
            echo $day."\n";
        }
    }
    $from_date ='01-01-2013';
    $to_date ='05-01-2013';
    printDays($from_date, $to_date);
?>

Loop through every day between the given dates (inclusive) and then add the corresponding day in an array, using date function. Print out the array and tada! you're done!

Upvotes: 1

Amir Bilal
Amir Bilal

Reputation: 457

$from_date ='01-01-2013';
$to_date ='05-01-2013';
$start = strtotime($from_date);
$end = strtotime($to_date);
$day = (24*60*60);
for($i=$start; $i<= $end; $i+=86400)
    echo date('l', $i);

Upvotes: 3

xdazz
xdazz

Reputation: 160843

Use the DateTime class, it will be much more simple:

$from_date ='01-01-2013';
$to_date ='05-01-2013';

$from_date = new DateTime($from_date);
$to_date = new DateTime($to_date);

for ($date = $from_date; $date <= $to_date; $date->modify('+1 day')) {
  echo $date->format('l') . "\n";
}

Upvotes: 6

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