This tutorial will show you how to get the individual working dates of a month, whilst removing weekends, this is useful for creating charts for instance.
First create an empty array it will later store the dates.
$workdays = array();
<p>Next I'm making use of a native function to inform php which type of calendar were working this, in this case its an Gregorian Calendar</p>
$type = CAL_GREGORIAN;
Next set the current month and year and get the total number of days in the current month using another inbuilt function: cal_days_in_month.
$month = date('n'); // Month ID, 1 through to 12.
$year = date('Y'); // Year in 4 digit 2009 format.
$day_count = cal_days_in_month($type, $month, $year); // Get the amount of days
Next create a for loop to loop through the number of days of the month then format the date for each day extract the day name and check the day is not a Sun or Sat then add that date to an array called $workdays
//loop through all days
for ($i = 1; $i <= $day_count; $i++) {
$date = $year.'/'.$month.'/'.$i; //format date
$get_name = date('l', strtotime($date)); //get week day
$day_name = substr($get_name, 0, 3); // Trim day name to 3 chars
//if not a weekend add day to array
if($day_name != 'Sun' && $day_name != 'Sat'){
$workdays[] = $i;
}
}
From here you've got all the dates stored in an array to use.
To just see the array contents we can use print_r:
print_r($workdays);
To use the array you could use a foreach:
foreach ($workdays as $key=>$value) {
//do something here
}
Here's the full script:
$workdays = array();
$type = CAL_GREGORIAN;
$month = date('n'); // Month ID, 1 through to 12.
$year = date('Y'); // Year in 4 digit 2009 format.
$day_count = cal_days_in_month($type, $month, $year); // Get the amount of days
//loop through all days
for ($i = 1; $i <= $day_count; $i++) {
$date = $year.'/'.$month.'/'.$i; //format date
$get_name = date('l', strtotime($date)); //get week day
$day_name = substr($get_name, 0, 3); // Trim day name to 3 chars
//if not a weekend add day to array
if($day_name != 'Sun' && $day_name != 'Sat'){
$workdays[] = $i;
}
}
// look at items in the array uncomment the next line
//print_r($workdays);
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