[SOLVED] Countdown to first tuesday of every month.

[TRemmie]

I need help coding a PHP countdown script that will echo days remaining till the next upcoming first tuesday of the next month. I can find scripts that will display the next upcoming tuesday in the week but not the first of the month.

[taquitosensei]

this would be it roughly and I think you might have trouble if you're dealing with a non standard timestamps or timezone outside of the US time zones. 

 

 
$thistues=strtotime("first tuesday");
$today=strtotime(date("Y-m-d"));
$nexttues=($today<$thistues)?$thistues:date("Y-m-d", strtotime("first tuesday", strtotime("+ 1 Month", strtotime(date("Y-m")))));;
$seconds=($nexttues-$today);
$minutes=($seconds/60);
$hours=($minutes/60);
$days=($hours/24);
echo "There are ".$days." days left until next tuesday";

[TRemmie]

This is echoing back "There are 7 days left until next tuesday" but we are looking for "24 days remaining till the next first tuesday". 

 

$thistues=strtotime("first tuesday");
$today=strtotime(date("Y-m-d"));
$nexttues=($today<$thistues)?$thistues:date("Y-m-d", strtotime("first tuesday", strtotime("+ 1 Month", strtotime(date("Y-m")))));;
$seconds=($nexttues-$today);
$minutes=($seconds/60);
$hours=($minutes/60);
$days=($hours/24);
echo "There are ".$days." days left until next tuesday";

[taquitosensei]

try this instead

$thistues=strtotime("first tuesday",strtotime(date("Y-m")));
$today=strtotime(date("Y-m-d"));
$nexttues=($today>=$thistues)?strtotime("first tuesday", strtotime("+ 1 Month", strtotime(date("Y-m")))):$thistues;
$seconds=($nexttues-$today);
$minutes=($seconds/60);
$hours=($minutes/60);
$days=($hours/24);
echo "There are ".floor($days)." days left until next tuesday";

 

[TRemmie]

Thanks for the help, unfortunatly, its still echoing back 7 days.

[sasa]

try

<?php
function days_to_next_tu(){
$day = date('t')-date('j');
$f = mktime(0,0,0,date('n')+1,1,date('y'));
$d = date('w', $f);
$t = $d > 2 ? 9-$d: 2-$d;
return $day+$t+1;
}
echo days_to_next_tu();
?>

[TRemmie]

Think thats it Thank you so much for the help all. 

[salathe]

If you're up for using some of the really nice additions in PHP 5.3, then you could also use the following:

 

<?php

$now  = new DateTime();
$tues = new DateTime('first tuesday of next month');
$diff = $now->diff($tues);
echo $diff->days;

?>