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

Late answer, but I thought I would post up this answer (which is actually from a different but related question). It handles the scenario in the question:

function last_monday($date) {
    if (!is_numeric($date))
        $date = strtotime($date);
    if (date('w', $date) == 1)
        return $date;
    else
        return strtotime(
            'last monday',
             $date
        );
}

echo date('m/d/y', last_monday('8/14/2012')); // 8/13/2012 (tuesday gives us the previous monday)
echo date('m/d/y', last_monday('8/13/2012')); // 8/13/2012 (monday throws back that day)
echo date('m/d/y', last_monday('8/12/2012')); // 8/06/2012 (sunday goes to previous week)

try it: http://codepad.org/rDAI4Scr

... or a variation that has sunday return the following day (monday) rather than the previous week, simply add a line:

 elseif (date('w', $date) == 0)
    return strtotime(
        'next monday',
         $date
    );

try it: http://codepad.org/S2NhrU2Z

You can pass it a timestamp or a string, you'll get back a timestamp

Documentation

• strtotime - http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
• date - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php