Re: Saturdays and Sundays

Sorry, I made a mistake. See below: ""Brian P. O'Donnell"" <brian@doctorpc.ca> wrote in message news:5B.F7.15098.8CF27134@pb1.pair.com... > > ""Shaun"" <shaunthornburgh@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:05.80.15098.C4FC6134@pb1.pair.com... > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to get the number of saturdays and sundays for a given > month > > / year? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > Here's another way to do it. Each function will return either 4 or 5. If you > need both Saturdays and Sundays, just call both functions: > > <? > > function get_saturdays($month, $year) { > > $sat = 4; > > // time stamp of noon on the first day of the month > $first_day = mktime(12, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year); > > switch ($month) { > case 1: > case 3: > case 5: > case 7: > case 8: > case 10: > case 12: > if (date("w", $first_day) > 3) { > $sat++; > } > break; > case 2: > if ((date("L", $first_day) == 1) && (date("w", $first_day) > > 5)) { > $sat++; > } > break; > case 4: > case 6: > case 9: > case 11: > if (date("w", $first_day) > 4) { > $sat++; > } > break; > } > > return($sat); > > } > > function get_sundays($month, $year) { > > $sun = 4; > > // time stamp of noon on the last day of the month The following line referenced a variable in the other function. DUH! It should be: $last_day = mktime(12, 0, 0, $month, date("t", mktime(12, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year)), $year); > > switch ($month) { > case 1: > case 3: > case 5: > case 7: > case 8: > case 10: > case 12: > if (date("w", $last_day) < 3) { > $sat++; > } > break; > case 2: > if ((date("L", $last_day) == 1) && (date("w", $last_day) < > 1)) { > $sat++; > } > break; > case 4: > case 6: > case 9: > case 11: > if (date("w", $last_day) < 2) { > $sat++; > } > break; > } > > return($sun); > > } > > ?>