Check if date is allowed weekday in php?
- by moogeek
Hello! I'm stuck with a problem how to check if a specific date is within allowed weekdays array in php. For example,
function dateIsAllowedWeekday($_date,$_allowed)
{
if ((isDate($_date)) && (($_allowed!="null") && ($_allowed!=null))){
$allowed_weekdays=json_decode($_allowed);
$weekdays=array();
foreach($allowed_weekdays as $wd){
$weekday=date("l",date("w",strtotime($wd)));
array_push($weekdays,$weekday);
}
if(in_array(date("l",strtotime($_date)),$weekdays)){return TRUE;}
else {return FALSE;}
}
else {return FALSE;}
}
/////////////////////////////
$date="21.05.2010";
$wd="[0,1,2]";
if(dateIsAllowedWeekday($date,$wd)){echo "$date is within $wd weekday values!";}
else{echo "$date isn't within $wd weekday values!"}
I have input dates formatted as "d.m.Y" and an array returned from database with weekday numbers (formatted as 'Numeric representation of the day of the week') like [0,1,2] - (Sunday,Monday,Tuesday).
The returned string from database can be "null", so i check it too. Them, the isDate function checks whether date is a date and it is ok.
I want to check if my date, for example 21.05.2010 is an allowed weekday in this array. My function always returns TRUE and somehow weekday is always 'Thursday' and i don't know why...
Is there any other ways to check this or what can be my error in the code above? thx
