I want to count the total day difference from user input
For example when the user inputs
start_date = 2012-09-06 and end-date = 2012-09-11
For now I am using this code to find the diffeence
$count = abs(strtotime($start_date) - strtotime($end_date));
$day = $count+86400;
$total = floor($day/(60*60*24));
The result of total will be 6. But the problem is that I dont want to include the days at weekend (Saturday and Sunday)
2012-09-06
2012-09-07
2012-09-08 Saturday
2012-09-09 Sunday
2012-09-10
2012-09-11
So the result will be 4
----update---
I have a table that contains date,the table name is holiday date
for example the table contains 2012-09-07
So, the total day will be 3, because it didn't count the holiday date
how do I do that to equate the date from input to date in table?
Very easy with my favourites: DateTime, DateInterval and DatePeriod
$start = new DateTime('2012-09-06');
$end = new DateTime('2012-09-11');
// otherwise the end date is excluded (bug?)
$end->modify('+1 day');
$interval = $end->diff($start);
// total days
$days = $interval->days;
// create an iterateable period of date (P1D equates to 1 day)
$period = new DatePeriod($start, new DateInterval('P1D'), $end);
// best stored as array, so you can add more than one
$holidays = array('2012-09-07');
foreach($period as $dt) {
$curr = $dt->format('D');
// substract if Saturday or Sunday
if ($curr == 'Sat' || $curr == 'Sun') {
$days--;
}
// (optional) for the updated question
elseif (in_array($dt->format('Y-m-d'), $holidays)) {
$days--;
}
}
echo $days; // 4
use DateTime:
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2012-09-06');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2012-09-11');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
$woweekends = 0;
for($i=0; $i<=$interval->d; $i++){
$datetime1->modify('+1 day');
$weekday = $datetime1->format('w');
if($weekday !== "0" && $weekday !== "6"){ // 0 for Sunday and 6 for Saturday
$woweekends++;
}
}
echo $woweekends." days without weekend";
// 4 days without weekends
Have a look at this post: Calculate business days
(In your case, you could leave out the 'holidays' part since you're after working/business days only)
<?php
//The function returns the no. of business days between two dates
function getWorkingDays($startDate,$endDate){
// do strtotime calculations just once
$endDate = strtotime($endDate);
$startDate = strtotime($startDate);
//The total number of days between the two dates. We compute the no. of seconds and divide it to 60*60*24
//We add one to inlude both dates in the interval.
$days = ($endDate - $startDate) / 86400 + 1;
$no_full_weeks = floor($days / 7);
$no_remaining_days = fmod($days, 7);
//It will return 1 if it's Monday,.. ,7 for Sunday
$the_first_day_of_week = date("N", $startDate);
$the_last_day_of_week = date("N", $endDate);
//---->The two can be equal in leap years when february has 29 days, the equal sign is added here
//In the first case the whole interval is within a week, in the second case the interval falls in two weeks.
if ($the_first_day_of_week <= $the_last_day_of_week) {
if ($the_first_day_of_week <= 6 && 6 <= $the_last_day_of_week) $no_remaining_days--;
if ($the_first_day_of_week <= 7 && 7 <= $the_last_day_of_week) $no_remaining_days--;
}
else {
// (edit by Tokes to fix an edge case where the start day was a Sunday
// and the end day was NOT a Saturday)
// the day of the week for start is later than the day of the week for end
if ($the_first_day_of_week == 7) {
// if the start date is a Sunday, then we definitely subtract 1 day
$no_remaining_days--;
if ($the_last_day_of_week == 6) {
// if the end date is a Saturday, then we subtract another day
$no_remaining_days--;
}
}
else {
// the start date was a Saturday (or earlier), and the end date was (Mon..Fri)
// so we skip an entire weekend and subtract 2 days
$no_remaining_days -= 2;
}
}
//The no. of business days is: (number of weeks between the two dates) * (5 working days) + the remainder
//---->february in none leap years gave a remainder of 0 but still calculated weekends between first and last day, this is one way to fix it
$workingDays = $no_full_weeks * 5;
if ($no_remaining_days > 0 )
{
$workingDays += $no_remaining_days;
}
return $workingDays;
}
// This will return 4
echo getWorkingDays("2012-09-06","2012-09-11");
?>
date('N') gets the day of the week (1 - Monday, 7 - Sunday)
$start = strtotime('2012-08-06');
$end = strtotime('2012-09-06');
$count = 0;
while(date('Y-m-d', $start) < date('Y-m-d', $end)){
$count += date('N', $start) < 6 ? 1 : 0;
$start = strtotime("+1 day", $start);
}
echo $count;
Here's an alternative to calculate business days between two dates and also excludes USA holidays using Pear's Date_Holidays from http://pear.php.net/package/Date_Holidays.
$start_date and $end_date should be DateTime objects (you can use new DateTime('@'.$timestamp) to convert from timestamp to DateTime object).
<?php
function business_days($start_date, $end_date)
{
require_once 'Date/Holidays.php';
$dholidays = &Date_Holidays::factory('USA');
$days = 0;
$period = new DatePeriod($start_date, new DateInterval('P1D'), $end_date);
foreach($period as $dt)
{
$curr = $dt->format('D');
if($curr != 'Sat' && $curr != 'Sun' && !$dholidays->isHoliday($dt->format('Y-m-d')))
{
$days++;
}
}
return $days;
}
?>
In my case I needed the same answer as OP, but wanted something a little smaller. @Bojan's answer worked, but I didn't like that it doesn't work with DateTime objects, required using timestamps, and was comparing against strings instead of the actual objects themselves (which feels hacky)... Here's a revised version of his answer.
function getWeekdayDifference(\DateTime $startDate, \DateTime $endDate)
{
$days = 0;
while($startDate->diff($endDate)->days > 0) {
$days += $startDate->format('N') < 6 ? 1 : 0;
$startDate = $startDate->add(new \DateInterval("P1D"));
}
return $days;
}
Per @xzdead's comment if you'd like this to be inclusive of the start and end date:
function getWeekdayDifference(\DateTime $startDate, \DateTime $endDate)
{
$isWeekday = function (\DateTime $date) {
return $date->format('N') < 6;
};
$days = $isWeekday($endDate) ? 1 : 0;
while($startDate->diff($endDate)->days > 0) {
$days += $isWeekday($startDate) ? 1 : 0;
$startDate = $startDate->add(new \DateInterval("P1D"));
}
return $days;
}
If you don't need full days but accurate seconds instead try this code. This accepts unix timestamps as an input.
function timeDifferenceWithoutWeekends($from, $to) {
$start = new DateTime("@".$from);
$current = clone $start;
$end = new DateTime("@".$to);
$sum = 0;
while ($current<$end) {
$endSlice = clone $current;
$endSlice->setTime(0,0,0);
$endSlice->modify('+1 day');
if ($endSlice>$end) {
$endSlice= clone $end;
}
$seconds = $endSlice->getTimestamp()-$current->getTimestamp();
$currentDay = $current->format("D");
if ($currentDay != 'Sat' && $currentDay != 'Sun') {
$sum+=$seconds;
}
$current = $endSlice;
}
return $sum;
}
The easiest and fastest way to get difference without weekends is by using Carbon library.
Here's an example how to use it:
<?php
$from = Carbon\Carbon::parse('2016-05-21 22:00:00');
$to = Carbon\Carbon::parse('2016-05-21 22:00:00');
echo $to->diffInWeekdays($from);
/**
* Getting the Weekdays count[ Excludes : Weekends]
*
* @param type $fromDateTimestamp
* @param type $toDateTimestamp
* @return int
*/
public static function getWeekDaysCount($fromDateTimestamp = null, $toDateTimestamp=null) {
$startDateString = date('Y-m-d', $fromDateTimestamp);
$timestampTomorrow = strtotime('+1 day', $toDateTimestamp);
$endDateString = date("Y-m-d", $timestampTomorrow);
$objStartDate = new \DateTime($startDateString); //intialize start date
$objEndDate = new \DateTime($endDateString); //initialize end date
$interval = new \DateInterval('P1D'); // set the interval as 1 day
$dateRange = new \DatePeriod($objStartDate, $interval, $objEndDate);
$count = 0;
foreach ($dateRange as $eachDate) {
if ( $eachDate->format("w") != 6
&& $eachDate->format("w") != 0
) {
++$count;
}
}
return $count;
}