Find last Monday

[Chan]

How can I find the date of the most recent Monday in PHP?

If it were Wensday, 11/15/2006 I would want to have 11/13/2006 as the last monday.

[John]

PHP Code:

echo date('m/d/Y', strtotime('-2 days')); 


of course you would have to do like

PHP Code:

//if today is monday
echo date('m/d/Y');

//if today is tuesday
echo date('m/d/Y', strtotime('-1 days'));

//if today is wednessday
echo date('m/d/Y', strtotime('-2 days'));

//if today is thursday
echo date('m/d/Y', strtotime('-3 days')); 


[Chan]

So I would have to do a bunch of ifs and hard code it? Isn't there a better way to do it?

[awgeorge]

Hi, instead of using (-2) you can atually use words if you wanted the last monday, all you would have to do is put "Last Monday":

Like this

PHP Code:

$monday = date('m/d/Y', strtotime('last monday'));  //last moday
$tuesday = date('m/d/Y', strtotime('last tuesday')); 
$wednesday = date('m/d/Y', strtotime('last wednesday')); 
$thursday = date('m/d/Y', strtotime('last thursday')); 
$friday = date('m/d/Y', strtotime('last friday')); // last friday

// Then all you would do is echo it.

echo $monday;

// and so on 


You can also put times into it like this

PHP Code:

$when = 'next thursday'; // what date its aming for
$sethour = '12'; // Set hour
$setminute = '30'; // Set minutes
$hourminus2 = $sethour-2; // For the strotime function

$deadline = strtotime("".$when." at ".$hourminus2.":".$setminute.""); // set a deadline

print strftime('%c',$deadline) ; 


it displays Thu Nov 30 12:30:00 2006 but because of some php errors you have to minus 2 hours. so thats what i have done above.

Will George

[Chan]

Thank you for your input! I actually "borrowed" the code from the community project Weekly Stats:

PHP Code:

// Variables
$current_date = time();

// Get day of the week
$current_day = dayofweek();

// Find last Monday
$last_monday = mktime(0,0,0, date("m", $current_date), date("d", $current_date)-($current_day-1), date("Y", $current_date)); 


And the day function:

PHP Code:

/**********************************************************
* Function retuns the day of the week as an integer.
* Used to find the last Monday
**********************************************************/
function dayofweek()
{
        $days = array("Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun");
        return array_search(date("D"), $days) + 1;
} 


Thanks!