Calculating the number of Saturdays and Sundays

Question

How can I calculate the number of Saturdays and Sundays between two dates in php?

Is there any inbuilt function for that purpose?

Answer 1

I searched for awhile for a simple solution that worked and decided to write my own and came up with this

        $start = date('Y-m-d');
        $end = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($start.' +1 year'));
        $current = $start;
        $count = 0;

        while($current != $end){
            if(date('l', strtotime($current)) == 'Saturday'){
                $count++;
            }

            $current = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($current.' +1 day'));
        };

        echo $count;