how to get date for holidays using php

Question

For example the:

1. 3rd Monday of January for Martin Luther King Day
2. 3rd Monday of February for Presidents

Answer 1

This way worked for me.

function observed_date($holiday){
    $day = date("w", strtotime($holiday));
    if($day == 6) {
        $observed_date = $holiday -1;
    } elseif ($day == 0) {
        $observed_date = $holiday +1;
    } else {
        $observed_date = $holiday;
    }
    return $observed_date;
}

function get_holiday($holiday_name) {

    $currentYear = date('Y');

    switch ($holiday_name) {
        // New Years Day
        case "new_year":
            $holiday = observed_date(date('Ymd', strtotime("first day of january $currentYear")));
            break;
        // Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
        case "mlk_day":
            $holiday = date('Ymd', strtotime("january $currentYear third monday"));
            break;
        // President's Day
        case "presidents_day":
            $holiday = date('Ymd', strtotime("february $currentYear third monday"));
            break;
        // Memorial Day
        case "memorial_day":
            $holiday = (new DateTime("Last monday of May"))->format("Ymd");
            break;
        // Independence Day
        case "independence_day":
            $holiday = observed_date(date('Ymd', strtotime("july 4 $currentYear")));
            break;
        // Labor Day
        case "labor_day":
            $holiday = date('Ymd', strtotime("september $currentYear first monday"));
            break;
        // Columbus Day
        case "columbus_day":
            $holiday = date('Ymd', strtotime("october $currentYear second monday"));
            break;
        // Veteran's Day
        case "veterans_day":
            $holiday = observed_date(date('Ymd', strtotime("november 11 $currentYear")));
            break;
        // Thanksgiving Day
        case "thanksgiving_day":
            $holiday = date('Ymd', strtotime("november $currentYear fourth thursday"));
            break;
        // Christmas Day
        case "christmas_day":
        $holiday = observed_date(date('Ymd', strtotime("december 25 $currentYear")));
            break;

        default:
            $holiday = "";
            break;
    }
    return $holiday;

}

Then you can print out the holiday by calling the function echo get_holiday('new_year');

And the result for 2015 should be 20150101