Get the First or Last Friday in a Month

Question

I\'m trying to write a calendar function like this

function get_date($month, $year, $week, $day, $direction)
{
    ....
}

$week

Answer 1

This seems to work perfect everytime; it takes any date provided and returns the date of the last friday of the month, even in case of 5 friday in the month.

function get_last_friday_of_month($inDate) {
    $inDate = date('Y-m-24', strtotime($inDate));
    $last_friday = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($inDate.' next friday'));
    $next_friday = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($inDate.' next friday'));

    if(date('m', strtotime($last_friday)) === date('m', strtotime($next_friday))){
        $last_friday = $next_friday;
    }else{
        //
    }
    return $last_friday;
}