get date from weekday and weeknumber.

Hi all,

I am generating a recurring instance of an .ics for outlook recurring meeting.

I am stuck in a case where i need to get the next date from a week number and a weekday.

for instance,

curDate = 22/12/2008

weekDay = Wednesday

weekNumber = 5

I need 31/12/2008 as return value.

can somebody help? i think i am stuck.

Rgds,

Kris

$baseDate = strtotime('2008-12-22');
$dueDate = strtotime("next Wednesday",$baseDate);
echo date('d-M-Y',$dueDate).'<br />';

may help

But what is your weeknumber? What is the significance of 5?

Hi Mark,

  The significance of the weeknumber in this case the value 5 is that

I basically want the date of the 5th week on which the day is wednesday.

Another example:

curDate = 22/12/2008

weekDay = Friday

weekNumber = 3

I would expect 19/12/2008

This is confusing, I dont knw how to go about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Kris

  Quote

I basically want the date of the 5th week on which the day is wednesday.

I can only guess that you mean the start of the month 19th December 2008 was the 3rd Friday in the month

31st December is the 5th Wednesday in the month

Is this correct?

Based on that guess:

$daysArray = array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday');

$currentDate = time();
$weekDay = 'Wednesday';
$weekNumber = 5;

$tmpWeekNbr = $weekNumber;
switch ($tmpWeekNbr) {
case 1 : $sup = 'st';
		 break;
case 2 : $sup = 'nd';
		 break;
case 3 : $sup = 'rd';
		 break;
default : $sup = 'th';
}

echo 'Current Date is '.date('d-M-Y',$currentDate).'<br />';
$dueDate = $baseDate = strtotime(date('Y-m',$currentDate).'-01');
echo 'Base Date is '.date('d-M-Y',$baseDate).'<br />';
$baseDoW = date('w',$baseDate);
$requiredDoW = $daysArray[$weekDay];
echo 'Month starts on a '.$daysArray[$baseDoW].'<br />';
echo 'Day required is '.$weekDay.'<br />';
echo 'Week required is '.$weekNumber.'<br />';;


if ($requiredDoW == $baseDoW) {
$weekNumber--;
}
while ($weekNumber > 0) {
$dueDate = strtotime('next '.$weekDay,$dueDate);
$weekNumber--;
}

echo $tmpWeekNbr.$sup.' '.$weekDay.' in '.date('F',$dueDate).' is the '.date('d-M-Y',$dueDate).'<br />';

Based on this, you should be able to calculate for any month/year rather than just for the current month, and add some validation to the Day of Week and Week number so that the result doesn't spill over into the following month.