[TriLUG] Perplexed

[Brian Bell]

Exactly right Warren,
This is what you're looking for:

echo date("Y-m-d",strtotime("last Monday -1 week")). "\n";

Brian


Warren Myers wrote:
> Well, 2006-04-03 is last Monday from today.
>
> WMM
>
> On 4/4/06, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 4/4/06, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> ...why aren't you using PHP's built-in date/time functions?
>>>       
>> Ok.
>>
>> But...
>>
>> echo date("Y-m-d",strtotime("last Monday")), "\n";
>>
>> yet gives me 2006-04-03 instead of 2006-03-27.  I still have to resort
>> to a loop to get the right numbers of days back...which is ok because
>> date() and strtotime do it correctly.
>>
>> <?php
>> $day = date("l") ;
>> print "<br>Day is $day - Before<br>";
>> switch ($day) {
>> case "Monday":
>>    print "<br>Day is $day - During<br>";
>>    $startdated = date("Y-m-d",strtotime("a week ago")) ;
>>    break;
>>
>> and so on.  I still don't understand why the other loop didn't work.
>> I guess it doesn't matter.  Thanks Brian.
>>
>> MPF
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