strtotime But Start on Monday
If I have this date 2013-06-09 (Friday September 6th) but I want to calculate strtotime starting on Sunday, 2013-01-09, How would I do that with the following code?
$rd = ' 2013-06-09';
//echo $rd.'<br />';
$pDate = strtotime($rd.' + 1 week');
// BUT I want to start at Sunday, always Sunday no matter what day it is//
$new_date = date('Y-m-d',$pDate);
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2013-06-09 <> (Friday September 6th)
2013-06-09 = (Sunday June 9th)
2013-09-06 = (Friday September 6th)
It is extremely rare to see YYYY-DD-MM used
regarding Ray's suggestion above, I believe that will return "the next Sunday (after)" so you may need to then subtract 7 days.
2013-06-09 = (Sunday June 9th)
2013-09-06 = (Friday September 6th)
It is extremely rare to see YYYY-DD-MM used
To avoid potential ambiguity, it's best to use ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) dateshttp://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
regarding Ray's suggestion above, I believe that will return "the next Sunday (after)" so you may need to then subtract 7 days.
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Thank you for that link. It was insightful for me.
The rules for strtotime() are pretty stable, but the inputs are worthy of careful testing. Thanks for the points and best of luck with your project, ~Ray
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html