PHP add weekdays not working properly for Friday

Question

I am trying to add weekdays to a date using the below formula:

$date = strtotime($effdate." +5 weekdays");
$date = date('m/d/Y', $date);

It works fine for other days but not for Friday. It points to the next Sunday rather than Friday. I googled for many solutions, but didn't get a clear idea.

Is there a workaround to fix this bug?

[Known bug](https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63521), and was supposedly fixed in PHP 5.5 — Mark Baker, Jun 04 '15 at 15:59
@Keerthi it may be `2015-06-05`, but what is your php version? are you running this code on 5.5? or are you on an earlier version? — Sean, Jun 04 '15 at 16:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '15 at 19:04

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If you're running PHP < 5.5.0 then this is a known bug and was fixed in PHP 5.5

Demo

The bug report does provide an alternative function that will work with versions of PHP that are susceptible to this bug, though it's using DateTime objects rather than unix timestamps

answered Jun 04 '15 at 19:04

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Is there a way to do it in 5.4? Or upgrade is the only option? – Keerthi Jun 04 '15 at 19:10

PHP add weekdays not working properly for Friday

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