Get n occurrences of a weekday

Question

I need 4 occurrence of Friday with date. Start date from 2014-05-25

Following will be the answer in this case.

There can be n occurrence of specific weekday and i need solution purely in PHP not in mysql

"*please do not give me static solution.*" — That's not how the site works. We don't write code for you, we only help you write it. Show us what you've tried so far. — Amal Murali, May 05 '14 at 11:47
@Naruto I have only start date and from that start date i have to find n occurrence of weekday. date format should be like year-month-date — user3603789, May 05 '14 at 11:50
possible duplicate of [Get all occurrence of specific day in a month](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23469816/get-all-occurrence-of-specific-day-in-a-month) — gnat, Jun 29 '14 at 14:25

pah · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-05T11:56:38.140

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Take a look into this.

You can do something like:

strtotime("+1 week", timestamp);

Where timestamp is the UNIX timestamp for the start date. You can replace 1 with a variable, and by using a loop you can write a generic function.

Hope this helps.

Edit #1:

Also, you can recur to strtotime() to generate your timestamp:

strtotime("+1 week", strtotime('2014-05-30'));

A possible whole solution would be (untested code):

for ($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i ++) {
   strtotime("+" . $i . " week", strtotime('2014-04-25'));
}

edited May 05 '14 at 11:56

answered May 05 '14 at 11:51

pah

You can still use the strtotime() to do that. Please refer to the documentation in the first link of the answer. – pah May 05 '14 at 12:01
Also what you're asking may be a duplicate of this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2784484/how-to-find-nearest-day-of-week-in-php – pah May 05 '14 at 12:03
I'm not asking anything, the guy who asked the question did.. :) – Naruto May 05 '14 at 12:06
Note that I answered your exact question. The Friday occurence part you're looking for is in the posted stackoverflow link. – pah May 05 '14 at 12:09

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