php first monday after certain date as string

Question

I have a date given as a string. And I would like to get the first monday after this given date, again as a string.

$myDate = \"2014-08-24\"; // date given i         


        

Answer 1

You can do it using the DateTime and DateTime::modify

$date = new DateTime('2014-08-24');
$date->modify('next monday');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";