how to get the date of last week's (tuesday or any other day) in php?

Question

I think its possible but i cant come up with the right algorithm for it.

What i wanted to do was:

If today is monday feb 2 2009, how would i know the date of last week's tuesday? Using that same code 2 days after, i would find the same date of last week's tuesday with the current date being wednesday, feb 4 2009.

Answer 1

Most of these answers are either too much, or technically incorrect because "last Tuesday" doesn't necessarily mean the Tuesday from last week, it just means the previous Tuesday, which could be within the same week of "now".

The correct answer is:

strtotime('tuesday last week')