first day of the month strtotime issue

[smugford2]

I have a simple calendar with a repeating event on specific weekdays

 

repeat every monday

repeat every thursday

etc etc

 

The specific issue that i'm having is the following code works for everything except the first day of the month.

  $cMonth = "april";
  $cYear = "2010";
$thu_counter = (int) date("d", strtotime("first thursday ".$cMonth." ".$cYear));

The expected result should be 1  (for Thursday april first 2010)

The result that i'm getting is 8 (or Thursay April Eighth 2010)

I've moved the calendar ahead one month and tested it for may as well and I have the same issue.

  $cMonth = "may";
  $cYear = "2010";
$sat_counter = (int) date("d", strtotime("first saturday ".$cMonth." ".$cYear));
echo $sat_counter; 

expected result 1

actual result 8

 

any thoughts

Thanks in Advanced

[Pikachu2000]

In PHP 5 prior to 5.2.7, requesting a given occurrence of a given weekday in a month where that weekday was the first day of the month would incorrectly add one week to the returned timestamp. This has been corrected in 5.2.7 and later versions.

[Pikachu2000]

NOTE: For grins, I just tested this on my installation (5.2.12) and the bug still seems to be present. It still returns 8.

[smugford2]

from my php info page --

 

PHP Version 5.3.1

 

is it possible this but still exists?

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

It seems so. I wrote a quick workaround for it, maybe you could incorporate it into a function and use it.

$occurrence = 'first';
$day_name = 'thursday';
$month = 'April';
$year = 2010;
$date = (int) date("d", strtotime($occurrence . " " . $day_name . " " . $month . " " . $year));
if( $occurrence == 'first' && $date >= 8 ) {
     $date -= 7;
}
echo $date;

[smugford2]

works perfectly in my function

THANKS!!

[smugford2]

I have a simple calendar with a repeating event on specific weekdays

 

repeat every monday

repeat every thursday

etc etc

 

The specific issue that i'm having is the following code works for everything except the first day of the month.

  $cMonth = "april";
  $cYear = "2010";
$thu_counter = (int) date("d", strtotime("first thursday ".$cMonth." ".$cYear));

The expected result should be 1  (for Thursday april first 2010)

The result that i'm getting is 8 (or Thursay April Eighth 2010)

I've moved the calendar ahead one month and tested it for may as well and I have the same issue.

  $cMonth = "may";
  $cYear = "2010";
$sat_counter = (int) date("d", strtotime("first saturday ".$cMonth." ".$cYear));
echo $sat_counter; 

expected result 1

actual result 8

 

any thoughts

Thanks in Advanced

[jcbones]

Try it like this:

$month = 'april';
$year = 2010;
echo date('d',strtotime('+0 week thursday ' . $month . ' ' . $year));