How to catch the last Monday in php

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How to always pick the date of last Monday in PHP, For example today is Tuesday day 22/05 (Tuesday) and php picks the date 21/05 (Monday).

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  • If today were Monday, it should show today’s date or the previous Mondays?

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Just use the format date relative:

$date = new DateTime("last monday");

That would be the last Monday that passed.

Exit:

object(DateTime)#1 (3) {
  ["date"]=>
  string(26) "2018-05-21 00:00:00.000000"
  ["timezone_type"]=>
  int(3)
  ["timezone"]=>
  string(16) "Europe/Amsterdam"
}

Code: https://3v4l.org/25tVY

  • It didn’t work, I used it the same way and it was wrong.

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    @Danielalencarknow what error has occurred because, as you can see in the link, it works in several versions of php (in all these: 5.6.0 - 5.6.30, hhvm-3.12.14 - 3.22.0, 7.0.0 - 7.2.4).

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Utilize date to format the date according to strtotime informed

 echo date('d/m/Y',strtotime('-1 Monday')); // 21/05/2018

 echo date('d-m-Y',strtotime('-1 Monday')); // 21-05-2018

 echo date('d/m',strtotime('-1 Monday')); // 21-05

 echo date('d-m',strtotime('-1 Monday')); // 21-05

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The function strtotime accepts a string, in the "US English date" format, and performs a parse on it transforming into a timestamp, making it possible to sum up dates, obtain specific days and numerous other functionalities.

Examples:

Last Monday strtotime('-1 Monday');

Last Monday strtotime("last Monday");

Next Thursday strtotime("next Thursday");

Next Thursday strtotime("+1 Thursday");

Second to last Monday strtotime('-2 Monday');

Next Monday strtotime('+1 Monday');

Catch the time now strtotime("now");

Using a textual date strtotime("10 September 2017");

Add a day strtotime("+1 day");

Add a week strtotime("+1 week");

Add one week, two days, four hours and two seconds strtotime("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds");

Pick today’s date and add 10 days

$now = strtotime("now");

strtotime("+10 day",$now);

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