How to find the date of a day of the week from a date using PHP?

Question

If I\'ve got a $date YYYY-mm-dd and want to get a specific $day (specified by 0 (sunday) to 6 (saturday)) of the week that YYYY-

Answer 1

If your date is already a DateTime or DateTimeImmutable you can use the format method.

$day_of_week = intval($date_time->format('w'));

The format string is identical to the one used by the date function.

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To answer the intended question:

$date_time->modify($target_day_of_week - $day_of_week . ' days');