First saturday for a selected month and year

Question

How could I find the first Saturday for a given month and year (month & year selected by a calender)? I am using PHP.

Answer 1

Use this function:

<?php  
  /**
   *
   *  Gets the first weekday of that month and year
   *
   *  @param  int   The day of the week (0 = sunday, 1 = monday ... , 6 = saturday)
   *  @param  int   The month (if false use the current month)
   *  @param  int   The year (if false use the current year)
   *
   *  @return int   The timestamp of the first day of that month
   *
   **/  
  function get_first_day($day_number=1, $month=false, $year=false)
  {
    $month  = ($month === false) ? strftime("%m"): $month;
    $year   = ($year === false) ? strftime("%Y"): $year;

    $first_day = 1 + ((7+$day_number - strftime("%w", @mktime(0,0,0,$month, 1, $year)))%7);

    return @mktime(0,0,0,$month, $first_day, $year);
  }

  // this will output the first saturday of january 2007 (Sat 06-01-2007)
  echo strftime("%a %d-%m-%Y", get_first_day(6, 1, 2007)); 
?>

Credits: php.net

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[EDIT]: Another short way:

Use strtotime() like this:

$month = 1;
$year = 2007;

echo date('d/M/Y',strtotime('First Saturday '.date('F o', @mktime(0,0,0, $month, 1, $year))));

This outputs:

06/Jan/2007