Re: Firs Day Of Week UNIX

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:14:47AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul M Foster [mailto:paulf@quillandmouse.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:37 AM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Firs Day Of Week UNIX > > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:00:55AM -0700, Don Wieland wrote: > > > > > Hi gang, > > > > > > I need a bailout. > > > > > > I have a fields called "sys_first_day_of_week" and the user can select > > > one value which will be from a menu with these options: > > > > > > Monday > > > Tuesday > > > Wednesday > > > Thursday > > > Friday > > > Saturday > > > Sunday > > > > > > Based on this "Preference" and TODAYS DATE, I want to calculate the > > > first day of the week. > > > > > > So if my preference is "Monday" and Today's date is 10/19/2010, I want > > > to return a value of: 1287374400 (which is 10/18/2010) > > > > > > if my preference is "Wednesday" and Today's date is 10/19/2010, I want > > > to return a value of: 1286942400 (which is 10/13/2010) > > > > > > Appreciate any help. > > > > I would strongly suggest you use a date class which uses julian days > > internally to represent dates. This makes date calculations vastly more > > simple and accurate than using seconds to do the calculation. I have a > date > > class I'll send you, if you like. > > > > Just get today's date, and today's day of the week. Then just add or > subtract > > days to get the other dates needed. In fact, the date class I mentioned > has > > two functions, begwk() and endwk() which allows you to return the > > beginning or ending of the week, based on today's date and a user- > > configurable end-of-week day. > > > > Paul > > > > -- > > Paul M. Foster > > > > Date class with methods begwk() & endwk()? Is that from PEAR/PECL? I don't > see it in the manual. I do see getDate() [1]; No, it's from PMF. (I wrote it.) ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster