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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
