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 use this

<?php
$myDate = "2014-08-27";
$next_monday = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("next monday", strtotime($myDate)));
echo $next_monday;
?>

OUTPUT :

2014-09-01

Demo

Answer 2

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";