Date in 3 days time minus weekends

[CanMan2004]

Hi all

I currently print on my page, todays date, the code I use is

[code]<?php $date = date('Y,m,d'); ?[/code]

How can you get php date to display the date in 3 days time, but skipping weekends, so if it was Friday the 5th, it would show Wednesday the 10th, but if it was Monday the 1st, it would show Thursday the 5th.

Does that make sense?

I am coding something, I just want other people suggestions as my code is long and doesnt always work out correct.

Any help would be fab

Cheers in advance

Dave

[ted_chou12]

[code]
<?php //sounds challenging :P
$date = strtotime($date);
$week = date('D', $date);
if ($week == "Thu" or $week == "Fri") {$date = $date + 432000;}// since thu and fri are special case
else {$date = $date + 259200;}//rest are fine
?>
[/code]
but it doesnt consider input values of Sat and Sun, since they are not the results of your output as well. so only works through inputs of mon-fri
took me a while to think  :P
Ted

[ted_chou12]

sorry... forgot wed....
[code]
<?php //sounds challenging :P
$date = strtotime($date);
$week = date('D', $date);
if ($week == "Wed" or $week == "Thu" or $week == "Fri") {$date = $date + 432000;}// since wed, thu and fri are special case
else {$date = $date + 259200;}//rest are fine
?>
[/code]
I think that would work....

[CanMan2004]

Hi Ted

When I use that, I put at the bottom

print $date;

and it returns 1170288000

Any ideas why?

[Jessica]

That's a timestamp, you need to then use the date() function on it.

Ted, I'm actually impressed. I didn't check it very thoroughly, but looks good. Nice job.

[ted_chou12]

if you need a clue of what i am trying to do here:
Since you want to skip the weekends, therefore, only concerns Wed, Thu, and Fri.
Others such as Mon and Tue only go up to Thu and Fri.
So for Wed, Thu and Fri, I add 5 days instead of three days, therefore, the two days (sat and sun) of the weekends are counted into the addition.
Does that make it clear?
Ted

[CanMan2004]

So what code would I use to convert it into a date()

[ted_chou12]

thanks jesirose, i wonder if thats a irony or compliment,
CanMan2004, do this:
$date = date('M d, Y h:i A', $date);// this is my fav. format personally.
check this to optimize yours: http://uk.php.net/date
Ted

[CanMan2004]

Found it

print strftime("%c",$date)

[obsidian]

I would try something like this (again, maybe not the most optimal, but at least it's reliable):
[code]
<?php
function getThreeDays($date) {
$day = 60 * 60 * 24;
$newDate = strtotime($date . " + 3 days");
// Sunday is the result, add one day
if (date('w', $newDate) == 0) $newDate += $day;
// Saturday is the result, add two days
elseif (date('w', $newDate) == 6) $newDate += (2 * $day);

return date('Y-m-d', $newDate);
}
?>
[/code]

Tested, and it seems to work well. Feed it a YYYY-MM-DD format, and it returns the same with the correct date.

[CanMan2004]

No compaints Ted, you did a fine job and helped out loads, thank you. top man

[ted_chou12]

welcome, my pleasure ;D

[Jessica]

edit: I'm slow today.