Get number of weekdays in a given month

Question

I want to calculate the number of weekdays days in a give month and year. Weekdays means monday to friday. How do i do it ?

Answer 1

function workingDays($m,$y) {
    $days = cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, $m, $y);
    $workig_days = 0;
    $days_rest = array(5,6); //friday,saturday
    for ( $d=1 ; $d < $days+1 ; $d++ ) {
        if ( !in_array(date("w",strtotime("{$d}-{$m}-{$y}")),$days_rest)  ) {
            $workig_days++;
        }
    }
    return $workig_days;
}