How to get the next two saturdays from a specific date

Question

I'am searching a lot without finding a solution.

Here is my code:

Post="2/28/2013"; 
$timestamp = strtotime($_POST['date']);
$datum = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $timestamp);

I would like to have the next two Saturdays following a date (named by user) to provide two auxiliary dates to customers. I take the date to look in mySQL to see if the date is available.

This gives the next Saturday from today, but it did not help:

$nextSaturday= date("M d Y", strtotime('+1 Saturday'));

Any hint why it is downvoted? Or is it due to the rainy weather? — hamburger, Jun 23 '13 at 09:12

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:45

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The nicest way to do this is with the PHP DateTime classes:

$date = new DateTime($_POST['date']);
$date->modify('next Saturday');

echo $date->format('M d Y');

answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:45

lonesomeday

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@hamburger No, it's relative to the DateTime object. – lonesomeday Jun 22 '13 at 14:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '13 at 15:02

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$time = time();
$saturdaysCount = 2;
$saturdays = [];
for ($i = 0; $i < $saturdaysCount; $i++){
    $time = strtotime("next Saturday", $time);
    $saturdays[] = date('Y.m.d', $time);
}

var_dump($saturdays);

answered Jun 22 '13 at 15:02

DBuTbKa

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vascowhite · Answer 3 · 2013-06-27T12:08:13.377

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The DateTime classes are definitely the way to go:-

$date = \DateTime::createFromFormat("d-m-Y", $_POST['date']);
$int = new \DateInterval('P1W');
$date->modify('next saturday');
$firstSat = $date->format('d-m-Y');
$date->add($int);
$secondSat = $date->format('d-m-Y');

edited Jun 27 '13 at 12:08

answered Jun 22 '13 at 15:02

vascowhite

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sorry got an error: Call to undefined method DateTime::createFromForm – hamburger Jun 22 '13 at 16:07
Your version of PHP does not have DateTime::createFromFormat(). I recommend updating if you can. Otherwise you may, or may not, be interested in this question http://stackoverflow.com/q/17076627/212940 – vascowhite Jun 27 '13 at 12:07

amigura · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-22T15:17:33.513

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$nextSaturday= date("M d Y", strtotime($datum.' next saturday'));
$nextSaturday2= date("M d Y", strtotime($nextSaturday.'+ 1 week'));

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

edited Jun 22 '13 at 15:17

answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:44

amigura

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do not work: no result – hamburger Jun 22 '13 at 14:53
@hamburger if you put it underneath your code it should return next saturday – amigura Jun 22 '13 at 15:13
you right. it works like a charm. I do not know why it is downvoted. – hamburger Jun 22 '13 at 15:32

How to get the next two saturdays from a specific date

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