Question

I would like to create 5 variables. They should hold the date('Y-m-d') values of each business day in the current week number.

For example (this week)

$mon_value = 2012-07-30
$tue_value = 2012-07-31
$wed_value = 2012-08-01
$thu_value = 2012-08-02
$fri_value = 2012-08-03

And this should update automatically when the week number changes.

How would I achieve this? I am fairly new to PHP programming…

Answer 1

PHP has a nifty function called strtotime, which can be used in the following way:

strtotime('Monday')

Combine that with the date function and you can have the date of each day:

$mon_value = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('Monday'));
$tue_value = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('Tuesday'));
// so forth...

strtotime documentation