php strtotime “last monday” if today is monday?

Question

I want to use strtotime(\"last Monday\").

The thing is, if today IS MONDAY, what does it return? It seems to be returning the date for the monday of la

Answer 1

If today is Monday, strtotime("last Monday") will return a date 7 days in the past. Why don't you just check if today is Monday and if yes, return today's date and if not, return last week?

That would be a foolproof way of doing this.

if (date('N', time()) == 1) return date('Y-m-d');
else return date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last Monday'));

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php