Question

I’m having two DateTime-objects:

$start = new DateTime('first thursday of June 2012');
$end   = new DateTime('2012-12-31');

I need a DatePeriod that contains all first Thursdays of the months between this two dates. When using

$interval = new DateInterval('P1M');
$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

This only adds 1 month without respecting the condition “first thursday”.

Also something like this does not work:

$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 month first thursday');
$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

I’ve struggled with this the last two hours – as soon as I posted it here I got the solution.
I only had to change the DateInterval string to “first thursday of next month”.

$start = new DateTime('first thursday of June 2012');
$end   = new DateTime('2012-12-31');

$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('first thursday of next month');
$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);

Works! DateTime rocks 😉