PHP Date Question: How to Determine The Date Each of the Past 3 Sundays

[Eric Linders]

Hello,

How can I determine what the date was (in YYYY-MM-DD format) last
Sunday, and the Sunday before that?

For example:

Today is Thursday, August 18, 2004 (2004-08-18). I would like to have
the following variables:

$this_past_sunday = 2004-08-14
$two_sundays_ago = 2004-08-07
$three_sundays_ago = 2004-07-31

etc. etc.

Thank you very much for your help in figuring this out!

- Eric

[Data Goob]

Eric,

Clues for you, the rest is up to you to figure out.

This example would determine two dates based on epochs:

$month, $day, $year are up to you.

$this_epoch = date( "U", mktime ( 0,0,0, $month, $day, $year ) );
$next_epoch = $this_epoch + 604800 ;
$next_ts = date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", date ( $next_epoch ) ) ;

Solve:

$last_week_epoch = $this_epoch - ?
$two_weeks_ago_epoch = $this_epoch - ?

Have fun!

-DG-
Eric Linders wrote:

Hello,

How can I determine what the date was (in YYYY-MM-DD format) last
Sunday, and the Sunday before that?

For example:

Today is Thursday, August 18, 2004 (2004-08-18). I would like to have
the following variables:

$this_past_sunday = 2004-08-14
$two_sundays_ago = 2004-08-07
$three_sundays_ago = 2004-07-31

etc. etc.

Thank you very much for your help in figuring this out!

- Eric

[Steven C. Gallafent]

"Eric Linders" <el********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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How can I determine what the date was (in YYYY-MM-DD format) last
Sunday, and the Sunday before that?

See my reply to your other post and you should be able to get it from there.

Steve
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[Rob Allen]

In message <49**************************@posting.google.com >, Eric
Linders <el********@hotmail.com> writes

Hello,

How can I determine what the date was (in YYYY-MM-DD format) last
Sunday, and the Sunday before that?

For example:

Today is Thursday, August 18, 2004 (2004-08-18). I would like to have
the following variables:

$this_past_sunday = 2004-08-14
$two_sundays_ago = 2004-08-07
$three_sundays_ago = 2004-07-31

etc. etc.

Thank you very much for your help in figuring this out!

- Eric

I would do something like

$7daysInSeconds = 86400 * 7;
$lastSunday = strtotime("last sunday");
$two_sundays_ago = $lastSunday - $7daysInSeconds;
$three_sundays_ago = $two_sundays_ago - $7daysInSeconds;

then format however you like. e.g.
$lastSundayString = date('Y-m-d', $lastSunday) ;
etc...

--
Rob...