How would I get the dates from the previous wednesday to the last tuesday?

[rf]

Hey I need to be able to get the dates from last wednesday to the past
tuesday on thursday or friday every week. How would I do that?

For example:
m t W TH F
M T w th f

I would need the dates of the CAPITAL W and T when I run the script
from the last th or f

So if today is 2006-1-19 I would need 2006-1-11 and 2006-1-17

Thanks for the help.

[Kimmo Laine]

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Hey I need to be able to get the dates from last wednesday to the past
tuesday on thursday or friday every week. How would I do that?

For example:
m t W TH F
M T w th f

I would need the dates of the CAPITAL W and T when I run the script
from the last th or f

So if today is 2006-1-19 I would need 2006-1-11 and 2006-1-17

As usually, there's more than one way to do it, here's one:
First find out what was last tuesday, easy as pie with strtotime:

$last_tuesday = strtotime('last tuesday');

After that you can get all the dates with the same method (using
$last_tuesday as a reference point instead of today so we don't get this
weeks "last wednesday" if it happens to be friday, but "last wednesday"
counting from last tuesday).

$last_monday = strtotime('last monday', $last_tuesday);
$last_friday = strtotime('last friday', $last_tuesday);
$last_thursday = strtotime('last thursday', $last_tuesday);
$last_wednesday = strtotime('last wednesday', $last_tuesday);

Now you can convert them to human readable formats using date:
echo date('Y-m-d', $last_monday); // for example

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[rf]

thanks I never knew about strtotime. Its a very cool function. Thanks
for pointing it out to me.