Question

Hi friends i need to get the week count .

for ex 1,2,3 …. 52 based on the current year .

In php week starts from Monday or Sunday by default

Is there anyway to set ‘Tuesday’ has default starting day .

my code is …

echo "current week of 2012 this year is ..". $weekNumber = date("W");

output for exapmle 16 . whereas correct should be 15 .

because i need the week starting from tuesday not monday , can anyone tell me how to do it .

since there is very less documentation on it will help others in future if answer is found 🙂

your help and time will be appreciated . or please suggest me a way in comments then 🙂

Answer 1

I got my solution thanks to an answer from ramesh.

To change Tuesday as the start of the week, I did it by using:

echo "Week count : ".date("W", strtotime("- 1 day"));