How do i determine the nth weekday of a given date in php

Question

Hi,

I am working on a calendar script where in i need to repeat a calendar event like "Repeat on every 1st Tuesday of every month"

In the example above. How do you get the "1st"?

for example today is June 12,2009 this would mean it's "2nd Friday of June" How do i get the "2nd"?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Divide by 7 and round up:

ceil(date('j') / 7);

Answer 2

This works:

<?php

$date = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), 1, date('y')));

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date.'next tuesday'));

?>

The first line creates a date thats the first day of this month. The second line get the next tuesday from $date.

You can do much more see date and mktime and strtotime.