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Sreebu K B
Sreebu K B

Reputation: 41

How to get first, third and fifth Saturday of a month in PHP?

I have already found a solution to this problem, but it's getting wrong for some condition. Following are my findings:

This code segment is to print the first Saturday of August 2015 and July 2015:

$sat = date("F Y",strtotime("2015-08-01"));
echo $fir_sat = "$sat first saturday";
echo " is ".date('d', strtotime($fir_sat));

$sat = date("F Y",strtotime("2015-07-04"));
echo $fir_sat = "$sat first saturday";
echo " is ".date('d', strtotime($fir_sat));

Following are the output:

August 2015 first Saturday is 08
July 2015 first Saturday is 04

But actually it is 01:

August 2015 first Saturday is 01

How does it happen? What is the solution?

Based on your feedback's I have tried some coding. Following are my findings. The error happened because of php version.

In lower version of PHP like 5.2.9 the following code is not working

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first saturday of august 2015'));

But in higher version like 5.4 it is wokring

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3950

Answers (4)

Ujjwal
Ujjwal

Reputation: 529

Simple Solution,tested in my local.

$sat = date("d F Y",strtotime("2015-08-01"));
echo $fir_sat = "$sat<br> First saturday";
echo " is ".date('d', ($fir_sat)); 


$thi_sat = strtotime ( '+14 day' , strtotime ( $sat ) ) ;
$thi_sat = date ( 'd' , $thi_sat );
echo "<br>third Saturday at ".$thi_sat;

$fifth_sat = strtotime ( '+28 day' , strtotime ( $sat ) ) ;
$fifth_sat = date ( 'd' , $fifth_sat );
echo "<br>Fifth Saturday at ".$fifth_sat;

Out put is:

01 August 2015
First saturday is 01
third Saturday at 15
Fifth Saturday at 29

This might help.Cheers!!

Upvotes: 0

Disha V.
Disha V.

Reputation: 1864

Try this

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first saturday of august 2015'));
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('third saturday of august 2015'));
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('fifth saturday of august 2015'));

Upvotes: 0

Narendrasingh Sisodia
Narendrasingh Sisodia

Reputation: 21437

Try using of as

echo date('d F Y', strtotime('first saturday of $fir_sat'));

"ordinal dayname 'of' " does not advance to another day.

instead of

echo date('d F Y', strtotime('$fir_sat first saturday'));

"ordinal dayname " does advance to another day.

You can check the difference over here

You can also check Docs(Notes)

Upvotes: 4

Amit Shah
Amit Shah

Reputation: 1380

This way you can utilize strtotime function.

echo date('d F Y', strtotime('first saturday of August 2015'));
echo "<br>";
echo date('d F Y', strtotime('second saturday of August 2015'));
echo "<br>";
echo date('d F Y', strtotime('fifth saturday of August 2015'));

Make sure you are passing proper year and month at the end, based on that it will give you correct date.

Thanks

Amit

Upvotes: 0

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