Question

Possible Duplicate:
Print Y-m-d list of business dates between two dates from MySQL using PHP

I’m new to these kind of PHP programming so bear with me.

I want users to be able to post two dates, a startdate and a enddate and from these dates calculate the business dates (exclude Saturday and Sunday) and insert these to MySQL

For example if I have this form…

<form action='update.php' method='post'>
  <input type='text' name='start_date'>
  <input type='text' name='end_date'>
  <input type='submit' name='submit'>
</form>

update.php

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

   $start_date = $_POST['start_date']; //Let's say this is 2012-10-01
   $send_date = $_POST['end_date']; //Let's say this is 2012-10-10

}

Now I would like to loop through the dates and create a MySQL query that would run like this:

INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-01');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-02');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-03');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-04');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-05');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-08');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-09');
INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES ('2012-10-10');

I know this is probably not a good solution but it’s how I need it.

How do I create the loop?

Answer 1

$startDate = $start_date;
$endDate = $send_date;

// Convert to UNIX timestamps
$currentTime = strtotime($startDate);
$endTime = strtotime($endDate);

// Loop until we reach the last day
$result = array();
while ($currentTime <= $endTime) {
  if (date('N', $currentTime) < 6) {
    $result[] = date('Y-m-d', $currentTime);
  }
  $currentTime = strtotime('+1 day', $currentTime);
}

// start insertion
foreach($result as $value)
{
  mysql_query("INSERT INTO tbl_dates (date_value) VALUES '".$value."'");
}

Source : Print Y-m-d list of business dates between two dates from MySQL using PHP

Omg! I just realized that it’s a thread started by you. You already have your answer