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I want to use strtotime("last Monday").
The thing is, if today IS MONDAY, what does it return? It seems to be returning the date for the monday of last week. How can I make it return today's date in that case?
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Just use the date relative format: $date = new DateTime("last monday");
The strtotime() function parses an English textual datetime into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). Note: If the year is specified in a two-digit format, values between 0-69 are mapped to 2000-2069 and values between 70-100 are mapped to 1970-2000.
strtotime expects a "English textual datetime" (according to the manual), which Y-D-M is not. Any time strtotime returns false, it simply doesn't understand your string, which in this application is expected.
PHP strtotime() function returns a timestamp value for the given date string. Incase of failure, this function returns the boolean value false.
If you read the manual, there is an great example that describes exactly what you want to do http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.relative.php
strtotime('Monday this week'); Update: There appears to be a bug introduced in newer versions of PHP where this week returns the wrong week when ran on Sundays. You can vote on the bug here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63740
Update 2: As of May 18th 2016, this has been fixed in PHP 5.6.22, PHP 7.0.7 and PHP 7.1-dev (and hopefully remains fixed in subsequent releases) as seen here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63740#1463570467
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answered Sep 23 '22 10:09
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