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

$start_date = strtotime("2013-05-01");
$last_date = strtotime("2013-08-30");
while ($start_date <= $last_date) {
    $start_date = strtotime('+1 day', $start_date);
    if (date('N',$start_date) == 2 || date('N',$start_date) == 4){
        echo date('Y-m-d', $start_date).PHP_EOL;
    }
}

Answer 2

Try with this

$startDate = strtotime($start_date);
$endDate = strtotime($last_date);
while ($startDate < $endDate) {
    echo date('Y-m-d', $startDate ). "\n";
    // Give the condition to find last Tuesday
    $startDate = strtotime( 'next Tuesday', $startDate );
}

Answer 3

<?php
$start    = new DateTime('2013-05-01');
$end      = new DateTime('2013-08-30');
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
$period   = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

foreach ($period as $dt) {
    if ($dt->format("N") == 2 || $dt->format("N") == 4) {
        echo $dt->format("l Y-m-d") . "<br>\n";
    }
}

See it in action

What this code does:

1. Creates a starting date object using DateTime.
2. Creates a starting date object using DateTime.
3. Creates a DateInterval object to represent our interval of time to iterate through. In this case 1 day.
4. Creates a DatePeriod object to manage these objects.
5. Using DatePeriod, it iterates through the date starting with the starting date and ending at the end date. We use DateTime::format() with the N parameter to get the day number of the week. If the day number of the week is 2 (Tuesday) or 4 (Thursday) echo out it's value.