I have a problem getting the date of monday in the current week.
echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime('monday this week'));
When I’m running the above code on my local machine (PHP 5.3) it outputs correctly ‘2011-03-07’, but the same code on my server (PHP 5.2) outputs ‘2011-03-14’ (that’s monday next week).
I’ve tried to run date(‘W’) on both machines and I get the same result (10).
Edit: Any ideas how get this work correctly?
Thanks in advance.
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Answer
Not that I’ve seen exactly this problem, but I’ve seen ones very similar. strtotime seems to change behaviour between different versions of PHP, and barring the simple operations (eg. ‘+1 week’), it’s difficult to guarantee that functionality will remain the same.
If you’re not able to upgrade to 5.3, which as correctly pointed out does seem to be an improvement, all I can recommend, is playing with some permutations. It’s often possible to get the right answer out of older versions of strtotime by rephrasing the question. Examples might include …
- next monday -1 week
- last monday +1 week
- this monday