Get first week date of the month providing day?

Question

Is there any PHP function that returns the date of the first week ,

i:e, if i pass "Monday" , it should return 02 of september,
i know, how to get the day, month, date like

date('l') , date('m'), date ('d') 

But stuck at this point

Answer 1

This should get you started:

$dt = new DateTime('first Monday of this month');
echo $dt->format('l m d');

See it in action