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mangala
mangala

Reputation: 143

how to find current month's thurdays in php

I have tried to get the current week thursday's date using the code below

date('m/d/y',strtotime('thursday this week'));

As the above how can i get current months all thursday dates in php.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 252

Answers (3)

salathe
salathe

Reputation: 51970

It is advisable to make use of the improved date and time abilities that came with PHP 5.3.0. Namely, the DatePeriod and DateInterval classes.

<?php

$start    = new DateTime('first thursday of this month');
$end      = new DateTime('first day of next month');
$interval = new DateInterval('P1W');
$period   = new DatePeriod($start, $interval , $end);

foreach ($period as $date) {
  echo $date->format('c') . PHP_EOL;
}

Edit

More complex filtering can be done in a variety of ways, but here is a simple approach to showing every Tuesday and Thursday in the month.

...
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
...
foreach ($period as $date) {
  if (in_array($date->format('D'), array('Tue', 'Thu'), TRUE)) {
      echo $date->format('c') . PHP_EOL;
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Alma Do
Alma Do

Reputation: 37365

You can filter your dates like this:

$sDay   = 'Thursday';
$rgTime = array_filter(
   range(strtotime('first day of this month'), strtotime('last day of this month'), 3600*24),
   function($iTime) use ($sDay)
   {
      return date('l', $iTime) == $sDay;
   });

Alternative way to get $rgTime will be:

$rgNums = ['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'fifth'];
$rgTime = [];
$sDay   = 'Thursday';
foreach($rgNums as $sNum)
{
   $iTime = strtotime($sNum.' '.$sDay.' of this month');
   if(date('m', $iTime)==date('m'))
   {
      //this check is needed since not all months have 5 specific week days
      $rgTime[]=$iTime;
   }
}

-now, if you want to get specific format, like Y-m-d, that will be:

$rgTime = array_map(function($x)
{
   return date('Y-m-d', $x);
}, $rgTime);

Edit

If you want to have several week days, it's also easy. For first sample that will be:

$rgDays = ['Tuesday', 'Thursday'];
$rgTime = array_filter(
   range(strtotime('first day of this month'), strtotime('last day of this month'), 3600*24),
   function($iTime) use ($rgDays)
   {
      return in_array(date('l', $iTime), $rgDays);
   });

Upvotes: 1

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 1371

try this. Should work :) 

    <?
    $curMonth = date("m");
    $start = strtotime("next Thursday - 42 days");
    for ($i=1; $i < 15; $i++){
        $week = $i*7;
        if (date("m",strtotime("next Thursday - 42 days + $week days")) == $curMonth ){
            $monthArr[] = date("m/d/y",strtotime("next Thursday - 42 days + $week days"));
        }
    }


print_r($monthArr);

?>

WORKING CODE

Upvotes: 0

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