Find week days date from range of the two dates

Question

$start_date = "2013-05-01";
$last_date = "2013-08-30";

How can I get dates of tuesdays and thursdays between these two dates?

Answer 1

<?php echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('next thursday', strtotime($start_date)));

Also for tuesday ofcourse

Answer 2

Please use the following function for your solution,

 function daycount($day, $startdate, $lastdate, $counter=0)
    {
        if($startdate >= $lastdate)
        {
            return $counter;
        }
        else
        {
            return daycount($day, strtotime("next ".$day, $startdate), ++$counter);
        }
    }

$start_date = "2013-05-01";
$last_date = "2013-08-30";

echo "Tuesday Count - ".daycount("tuesday", strtotime($start_date), strtotime($last_date));
echo "<br/>";
echo "Thursday Count - ".daycount("thursday", strtotime($start_date), strtotime($last_date));

Answer 3

Some PHP-Fu

$start_date = '2013-05-01';
$last_date = '2013-08-30';

$dates = range(strtotime($start_date), strtotime($last_date),86400);
$days = array('tuesday' => array(), 'thursday' => array());

array_map(function($v)use(&$days){
        if(date('D', $v) == 'Tue'){
            $days['tuesday'][] = date('Y-m-d', $v);
        }elseif(date('D', $v) == 'Thu'){
            $days['thursday'][] = date('Y-m-d', $v);
        }
    }, $dates); // Requires PHP 5.3+

print_r($days);

Output

Array
(
    [tuesday] => Array
        (
            [0] => 2013-05-07
            [1] => 2013-05-14
            [2] => 2013-05-21
            [3] => 2013-05-28
            [4] => 2013-06-04
            [5] => 2013-06-11
            [6] => 2013-06-18
            [7] => 2013-06-25
            [8] => 2013-07-02
            [9] => 2013-07-09
            [10] => 2013-07-16
            [11] => 2013-07-23
            [12] => 2013-07-30
            [13] => 2013-08-06
            [14] => 2013-08-13
            [15] => 2013-08-20
            [16] => 2013-08-27
        )

    [thursday] => Array
        (
            [0] => 2013-05-02
            [1] => 2013-05-09
            [2] => 2013-05-16
            [3] => 2013-05-23
            [4] => 2013-05-30
            [5] => 2013-06-06
            [6] => 2013-06-13
            [7] => 2013-06-20
            [8] => 2013-06-27
            [9] => 2013-07-04
            [10] => 2013-07-11
            [11] => 2013-07-18
            [12] => 2013-07-25
            [13] => 2013-08-01
            [14] => 2013-08-08
            [15] => 2013-08-15
            [16] => 2013-08-22
            [17] => 2013-08-29
        )

)

Online demo

Answer 4

With the help of few php date functions this can be solved easily..

<?php

// Create the from and to date
$start_date = strtotime("2013-05-01");
$last_date  = strtotime("2013-08-30");

// Get the time interval to get the tue and Thurs days
$no_of_days = ($last_date - $start_date) / 86400; //the diff will be in timestamp hence dividing by timestamp for one day = 86400
$get_tue_thu_days = array();

// Loop upto the $no_of_days
for($i = 0; $i < $no_of_days; $i++) {
    $temp = date("D", $start_date);
    if($temp == "Tue" || $temp == "Thu") {
      $get_tue_thu_days[] = date("D/M/Y", $start_date); //formating date in Thu/May/2013 formate.
    }
    $start_date += 86400;
}

print_r($get_tue_thu_days);

Answer 5

With DateTime:

$start_date = "2013-05-01";
$last_date = "2013-08-30";

$start = new DateTime($start_date);
$clone = clone $start;

$start->modify('next thursday');
$thursday=$start->format('Y-m-d');

$clone->modify('next tuesday');
$tuesday=$clone->format('Y-m-d');

echo $thursday; //2013-05-02
echo $tuesday; //2013-05-07

We need to objects because if in interval tuesday is before thursday we will have next tuesday. But you can modify little code to use one object.

Answer 6

if you have a reference date which you know is a tuesday/thursday you can find days which are a multiple of 7 days from your reference date, these days will always be the same day of the week.