Find week days date from range of the two dates
<?php
$start = new DateTime('2013-05-01');
$end = new DateTime('2013-08-30');
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);
foreach ($period as $dt) {
if ($dt->format("N") == 2 || $dt->format("N") == 4) {
echo $dt->format("l Y-m-d") . "<br>\n";
}
}
See it in action
What this code does:
- Creates a starting date object using DateTime.
- Creates a starting date object using DateTime.
- Creates a DateInterval object to represent our interval of time to iterate through. In this case 1 day.
- Creates a DatePeriod object to manage these objects.
- Using DatePeriod, it iterates through the date starting with the starting date and ending at the end date. We use
DateTime::format()
with theN
parameter to get the day number of the week. If the day number of the week is2
(Tuesday) or4
(Thursday) echo out it's value.
Some PHP-Fu
$start_date = '2013-05-01';
$last_date = '2013-08-30';
$dates = range(strtotime($start_date), strtotime($last_date),86400);
$days = array('tuesday' => array(), 'thursday' => array());
array_map(function($v)use(&$days){
if(date('D', $v) == 'Tue'){
$days['tuesday'][] = date('Y-m-d', $v);
}elseif(date('D', $v) == 'Thu'){
$days['thursday'][] = date('Y-m-d', $v);
}
}, $dates); // Requires PHP 5.3+
print_r($days);
Output
Array
(
[tuesday] => Array
(
[0] => 2013-05-07
[1] => 2013-05-14
[2] => 2013-05-21
[3] => 2013-05-28
[4] => 2013-06-04
[5] => 2013-06-11
[6] => 2013-06-18
[7] => 2013-06-25
[8] => 2013-07-02
[9] => 2013-07-09
[10] => 2013-07-16
[11] => 2013-07-23
[12] => 2013-07-30
[13] => 2013-08-06
[14] => 2013-08-13
[15] => 2013-08-20
[16] => 2013-08-27
)
[thursday] => Array
(
[0] => 2013-05-02
[1] => 2013-05-09
[2] => 2013-05-16
[3] => 2013-05-23
[4] => 2013-05-30
[5] => 2013-06-06
[6] => 2013-06-13
[7] => 2013-06-20
[8] => 2013-06-27
[9] => 2013-07-04
[10] => 2013-07-11
[11] => 2013-07-18
[12] => 2013-07-25
[13] => 2013-08-01
[14] => 2013-08-08
[15] => 2013-08-15
[16] => 2013-08-22
[17] => 2013-08-29
)
)
Online demo
$start_date = strtotime("2013-05-01");
$last_date = strtotime("2013-08-30");
while ($start_date <= $last_date) {
$start_date = strtotime('+1 day', $start_date);
if (date('N',$start_date) == 2 || date('N',$start_date) == 4){
echo date('Y-m-d', $start_date).PHP_EOL;
}
}