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Please see this article. &nbsp;This question and much more is answered there. &nbsp;The practical examples will show you a way to do this.<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html</a>
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Please see this article.  This question and much more is answered there.  The practical examples will show you a way to do this.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html]

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Given a date '2012-07-01', I need a function to get a count of the number of weekdays in July.<br />
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This needs to be easy enough to use for each month of the year using variables I have set up for a fiscal year.
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Given a date '2012-07-01', I need a function to get a count of the number of weekdays in July.

This needs to be easy enough to use for each month of the year using variables I have set up for a fiscal year.

Getting a count of weekdays per month

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