I need to get a list of dates that should range from the current day, up to the specified day (saturday, in this case) of the following week.
Example:
Today is friday, august 1st 2014, so it should get the dates starting from today up to saturday, august 9th 2014:
fri, 2014-08-01
sat, 2014-08-02
(sun excluded)
mon, 2014-08-04
tue, 2014-08-05
wed, 2014-08-06
thu, 2014-08-07
fri, 2014-08-08
sat, 2014-08-09
(sun excluded)
How can I go about this?
I was thinking on using the DateInterval class, this is what I've got so far:
$now = date('Y-m-d');
$start = new DateTime($now);
$end = new DateTime($now);
$oneweek = new DateInterval('P1W');
$oneday = new DateInterval('P1D');
$days = array();
foreach(new DatePeriod($start, $oneday, $end->add($oneweek)) as $day) {
$day_num = $day->format('N');
if($day_num < 7) {
$days[$day->format('Y-m-d')] = 'valid date';
}
}
It works fine for excluding the sundays, but it only goes up to 1 week after the current date, i.e. 7 days. So I was wondering if there was a way of making $end to be something like: 'the saturday of the following week'.
There's actually a way to do that, if you take a look at the comments section of the DatePeriod's Manual page, you'll find an usage example of the DateInterval class' createFromDateString static method, by jkaatz at gmx dot de (2009-07-10 01:55):
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('last thursday of next month');
Using the same approach, you can construct a date interval by using the following string:
sunday of next week
And it would let you get all the dates between the current day (including the current week's saturday) up to the next week's saturday (since DatePeriod counts up to, but not including, the end date).
You can find more information of the createFromDateString's method on its manual pages, you can also find more on the syntax, keywords and notations for constructing interval strings on the Relative Formats Manual pages, which are also used by the strtotime() function and the DateTime class.