How to get all fridays from current month

Question

I have a problem,

$fridays = array();
$fridays[0] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first friday of this month'));
$fridays[1] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('second friday of this month'));
$fridays[2] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('third friday of this month'));
$fridays[3] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('fourth friday of this month'));
$fridays[4] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('fifth friday of this month'));

but there is no fifth friday. Some months have fifth fridays. How to check and not set the last item array?

Answer 1

$fifth = strtotime('fifth friday of this month');

if (date('m') === date('m', $fifth)) {
  $fridays[4] = date('Y-m-d', $fifth);
}

Answer 2

You can do this using the PHP date function. Get the month you want in $timestamp and then do something like this:

<?php
function fridays_get($month, $stop_if_today = true) {

$timestamp_now = time();

for($a = 1; $a < 32; $a++) {

    $day = strlen($a) == 1 ? "0".$a : $a;
    $timestamp = strtotime($month . "-$day");
    $day_code = date("w", $timestamp);
    if($timestamp > $timestamp_now)
        break;
    if($day_code == 5)
        @$fridays++;

}

return $fridays;
}

echo fridays_get('2011-02');

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