Calculate business days

Question

I need a method for adding \"business days\" in PHP. For example, Friday 12/5 + 3 business days = Wednesday 12/10.

At a minimum I need the code to understand weekend

Answer 1

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');


/** Given a number days out, what day is that when counting by 'business' days
  * get the next business day. by default it looks for next business day
  * ie calling  $date = get_next_busines_day(); on monday will return tuesday
  *             $date = get_next_busines_day(2); on monday will return wednesday
  *             $date = get_next_busines_day(2); on friday will return tuesday
  *
  * @param $number_of_business_days (integer)       how many business days out do you want
  * @param $start_date (string)                     strtotime parseable time value
  * @param $ignore_holidays (boolean)               true/false to ignore holidays
  * @param $return_format (string)                  as specified in php.net/date
 */
function get_next_business_day($number_of_business_days=1,$start_date='today',$ignore_holidays=false,$return_format='m/d/y') {

    // get the start date as a string to time
    $result = strtotime($start_date);

    // now keep adding to today's date until number of business days is 0 and we land on a business day
    while ($number_of_business_days > 0) {
        // add one day to the start date
        $result = strtotime(date('Y-m-d',$result) . " + 1 day");

        // this day counts if it's a weekend and not a holiday, or if we choose to ignore holidays
        if (is_weekday(date('Y-m-d',$result)) && (!(is_holiday(date('Y-m-d',$result))) || $ignore_holidays) ) 
            $number_of_business_days--;

    }

    // when my $number of business days is exausted I have my final date

    return(date($return_format,$result));
}

    function is_weekend($date) {
    // return if this is a weekend date or not.
    return (date('N', strtotime($date)) >= 6);
}

function is_weekday($date) {
    // return if this is a weekend date or not.
    return (date('N', strtotime($date)) < 6);
}

function is_holiday($date) {
    // return if this is a holiday or not.

    // what are my holidays for this year
    $holidays = array("New Year's Day 2011" => "12/31/10",
                        "Good Friday" => "04/06/12",
                        "Memorial Day" => "05/28/12",
                        "Independence Day" => "07/04/12",
                        "Floating Holiday" => "12/31/12",
                        "Labor Day" => "09/03/12",
                        "Thanksgiving Day" => "11/22/12",
                        "Day After Thanksgiving Day" => "11/23/12",
                        "Christmas Eve" => "12/24/12",
                        "Christmas Day" => "12/25/12",
                        "New Year's Day 2012" => "01/02/12",
                        "New Year's Day 2013" => "01/01/13"
                        );

    return(in_array(date('m/d/y', strtotime($date)),$holidays));
}


print get_next_business_day(1) . "\n";