Loop through days for following week

[john-formby]

Hi,

 

I need help with looping through the dates of working days (Monday to Friday) for the following week.

 

I need to send an email once a week (probably on a Thursday or Friday) informing people of their rooms for the following week.  I need to loop through each day, starting with Monday and finishing on Friday.

 

I wrote this:

for($i=0;$i<5;$i++) {
	echo date('Y-m-j', strtotime('Monday+'.$i)).'<br />';
}

I thought this would work, but it returns the correct date for next Monday (2013-03-25) and then the other 4 days are all showing as 2013-03-24.

 

Any ideas how I can get this to work?

 

Thank you for taking the time to help.

 

Many Thanks,

 

John

[Zane]

try adding the word "week" in there

 

echo date('Y-m-j', strtotime('Monday+'. $i . ' week')).'<br />';

[PaulRyan]

Wouldn't it be "day"? He wants to iterate from Monday to Friday I believe.

[Christian F.]

I'd simplify the logic a bit, and generate the timestamp using DateInterval and DatePeriod.

// First set up the starting day, ending day (+1 day) and the interval to use (1 day).

$start = new DateTime ('next monday', new DateTimeZone ('UTC'));

$end = new DateTime ('next monday +7 days', new DateTimeZone ('UTC'));

$interval = new DateInterval ('P1D');


// Then create the period range, including the starting day and up to the ending day.

// Doesn't include the last day, which is why we added one day extra when creating the ending timestamp.

$range = new DatePeriod ($start, $interval, $end);


// Run through the days of the next week, and build up the output string.

$output = '';

foreach ($range as $date) {

    $output .= $date->format ('Y-m-j')."\n";

}

Then it's just to echo out $output wherever you want the dates to be displayed.

[john-formby]

Perfect, thank you very much to both of you.

 

I have changed week to day as suggested and works great.

 

Many Thanks,

 

John

[P5system]

for($i=0;$i<5;$i++) {
     echo date('Y-m-j', strtotime('Monday+'. $i . ' day')).'<br />';
}

corrected code.. please check it will work