Question

Basically, my question is about finding date-ranges

From today’s date [ using date() ], I want to find

1. starting and ending date for current week

   Let's assume
   Today: 14 July, 2011
   start of week: 10 July, 2011
   end of week: 16 July, 2011
   

2. starting and ending date for current month

   Let's assume
   Today: 14 July, 2011
   start of month: 1 July, 2011
   end of month: 31 July, 2011
   

How can I find these dates ?

Answer 1

$firstOfTheMonth = date('1 F Y');
$lastOfTheMonth  = date('t F Y');

$startOfTheWeek  = date('j F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('n'), date('j') - date('w')));
$endOfTheWeek    = date('j F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('n'), date('j') - date('w') + 6));

All the different parameters for date basically give you all you need, the rest is a tiny bit of math.