Question

Let’s say I want to get a have a database that contains days of the week. For example one record in database can contain a “Thursday”. I want to be able to run my script anytime and determine what year, month and day will the next Thursday be each time I run my script. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can use strtotime() for this:

$time = strtotime("next Thursday");
echo date("M d, Y", $time); // Echos "Nov 15, 2012"

Sample in action: http://codepad.org/NRm3xoJB