Question

I’m trying to create a yearly automated schedule for a publication. Every issue has 3 dates (Wednesday, Friday & Monday), that occur every two weeks. And in some cases when the day falls on a holiday it should automatically adjust and goto the following day.

I’m trying to do this all right now in PHP, I’ve got most of it working but after issue 7 the script goes wrong and seems to skip a week. Can anyone help or suggest a way of achieving this?

Here is pseudo-code of my logic;

For 12 months
    Get the amount of days in a given month
        For days in a month
            If Wednesday
        assign date to a var
            Else if Friday
                assign date to a var
                print wednesday var
                print friday var
                print monday var
                increment counter in order to skip ahead to the next week
            Else if Monday
                assign date to a var

Thanks

Answer 1

I think this should point you in the right direction (untested, but should do what you want).

$iYear = date('Y');

for($i = 1; $i <= 12; $i++) {
  $iNumDaysInMonth = date('t', mktime(0,0,0,$i,1,$iYear);

  for($j = 1; $j <= $iNumDaysInMonth; $j++) {
    $iDayNum = date('N', mktime(0,0,0,$i,$j,$iYear));

    if($iDayNum == 3) {
      // wednesday
    } elseif($iDayNum == 5) {
      // friday
    } elseif($iDayNum == 1) {
      // monday
    }
  }
}