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

This code snippet is very easy to calculate business day without week end and holidays:

function getWorkingDays($startDate,$endDate,$offdays,$holidays){
$endDate = strtotime($endDate);
$startDate = strtotime($startDate);
$days = ($endDate - $startDate) / 86400 + 1;
$counter=0;
for ($i = 1; $i <= $days; $i++) {
    $the_first_day_of_week = date("N", $startDate);
    $startDate+=86400;
if (!in_array($the_first_day_of_week, $offdays) && !in_array(date("Y-m-
d",$startDate), $holidays)) {
$counter++;
}

}   
return $counter;
}
//example to use
$holidays=array("2017-07-03","2017-07-20");
$offdays=array(5,6);//weekend days Monday=1 .... Sunday=7
echo getWorkingDays("2017-01-01","2017-12-31",$offdays,$holidays)