Need help with date array

[Djinni]

I've been stuck on this for some time now and need help.

 

I have a single page timetable, with Monday to Sunday fixed. I need the dates to change each day from today for the next six days.

 

After lots of trial and error, I decided an array might be best. I have this working with lots of IF statements that display the correct date for each day, but what I really want is to sort the array by day order so that Monday is index 1, Tuesday is index 2, etc. So effectively for Monday I could simply echo $dates[1]; Is this possible?

 

Here is my code so far:

<?PHP

    function createDatesArray($days) {

      $output = array();

      $month = date("m");

      $day = date("d");

      $year = date("Y");

 

      for($i=0; $i<=6; $i++){

            $output[] = date('l jS M',mktime(0,0,0,$month,($day+$i),$year));

      }

 

      return $output;

  }

 

    $dates = createDatesArray("7");

 

    foreach($dates as $date) {

        echo($date . "<br />"); 

  } 

?>

[WebStyles]

I'm not sure I get what you need.

 

You want a function to return the current day, plus the next 6 days?

 

function createDatesArray($days) {
       $output = array();
       $today = date("l jS M");
       for($i=0; $i<$days; $i++){
            $output[] = date('l jS M',strtotime("$today + $i days"));
       }

       return $output;
   }

 

why would you want monday to be index 1 if monday is the last day? I don't really get it, then your dates would not be in the correct order... why not just use:

function createDatesArray($days) {
       $output = array();
       $today = date("l jS M");
       for($i=0; $i<$days; $i++){
            $wday = date('l',strtotime("$today + $i days"));
            $output[$wday] = date('l jS M',strtotime("$today + $i days"));
       }

       return $output;
   }

 

now monday will be index 'Monday', and tuesday will be index 'Tuesday' etc....

[Djinni]

That's perfect, thank you!

 

I didn't think of doing it that way.

 

I know it is odd, but exactly what I needed. Just in case you are still wondering why...

I have a single page timetable running Monday through to Sunday, which is fixed, it's for a booking page where classes can be booked up to 6 days in Advance.

 

As each day passes, I need the dates to change for each day running from today for the next 6 days.

So today it would show:

Mon 4th  |  Tues 28th  |  Wed 29th  |  Thur 30th  |  Fri 1st  |  Sat 2nd  |  Sun 3rd

Then tomorrow:

Mon 4th  |  Tues 5th  |  Wed 29th  |  Thur 30th  |  Fri 1st  |  Sat 2nd  |  Sun 3rd

Then Thursday:

Mon 4th  |  Tues 5th  |  Wed 6th  |  Thur 30th  |  Fri 1st  |  Sat 2nd  |  Sun 3rd

Then Friday:

Mon 4th  |  Tues 5th  |  Wed 6th  |  Thur 7th  | Fri 1st  |  Sat 2nd  |  Sun 3rd

 

So only the date for each column would change.

 

 

[WebStyles]

Cool. Glad I could help.