Get week number (in the year) from a date PHP

Question

I want to take a date and work out its week number.

So far, I have the following. It is returning 24 when it should be 42.

Answer 1

Your code will work but you need to flip the 4th and the 5th argument.

I would do it this way

$date_string = "2012-10-18";
$date_int = strtotime($date_string);
$date_date = date($date_int);
$week_number = date('W', $date_date);
echo "Weeknumber: {$week_number}.";

Also, your variable names will be confusing to you after a week of not looking at that code, you should consider reading http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/why-youre-a-bad-php-programmer/