Question

I have a function which returns all the dates between two dates in an array, But I need to exclude Sundays in that array.

public function dateRange($first, $last, $step = '+1 day', $format = 'd/m/Y' ) { 
    $dates = array();
    $current = strtotime($first);
    $last = strtotime($last);
    while( $current <= $last ) { 
        $dates[] = date($format, $current);
        $current = strtotime($step, $current);
    }
    return $dates;
}

After excluding the Sundays, I have a table where I will be storing some dates, I need to exclude those dates from the array too.

like, If I enter the date range as 01-05-2012(DD-MM-YYYY) to 10-05-2012,
The 06-05-2012 will be Sunday & the date 01-05-2012 & 08-05-2012 will be in the table which I mentioned above,
The final out put should be like,

02-05-2012
03-05-2012
04-05-2012
05-05-2012
07-05-2012
09-05-2012
10-05-2012

How to do this in PHP ?
I tried some but couldn’t find the right way to do it.

Answer 1

For the Sundays part:

public function dateRange($first, $last, $step = '+1 day', $format = 'd/m/Y' ) { 
    $dates = array();
    $current = strtotime($first);
    $last = strtotime($last);
    while( $current <= $last ) { 
        if (date("D", $current) != "Sun")
            $dates[] = date($format, $current);
        $current = strtotime($step, $current);
    }
    return $dates;
}

For the holidays part:

First you need to load the dates into some kind of array and then loop through the array for each of your dates and check if they match.