[SOLVED] Date comparision issue (First Tuesday of the Month)

[drakal30]

I want the script to check first if the current Day is Tuesday and if the Tuesday is the first Tuesday of the current month.  Thank you for all your help.

[kenrbnsn]

Here's a short script that gets the first Tuesday of each month of 2008. Using it as a guide, you should be able to solve your problem:

<?php
for($i=1;$i<13;$i++) {
	$st = strtotime($i . '/1/2008');
	if (date('l',$st) != 'Tuesday') // the character between the quotes in the date() function is a lowercase L
		$st = strtotime('first tuesday',$st);
	echo date('l, F j, Y',$st) . '<br>';
}
?>

 

Ken

[drakal30]

Hey Ken thanks for the info I came up with this on my own.  I am sure it's archaic and there is a smoother way to do it but it seems to work pretty well for me.

 

				$curYear = date('Y');
				$curMonth = date('m');
				$numDays = cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, $curMonth, $curYear);
				$count = 1;
				$chk = 0;

				while($count <= $numDays) {

					$chkDay = date('l',mktime('0','0','0',$curMonth,$count,$curYear));

					if($chkDay == "Tuesday") {
						$chkDate = mktime('0','0','0',$curMonth,$count,$curYear);
						$count = 50;
						$chk = 1;
					}else {
						$count++;
					}

				}

 

Basically once it hits the 1st tuesday it exits the while loop and sets a $chk var to let me know it found it and sets the date of the first tuesday in mktime format.