strtotime + 3 days excluding weekends.

Hello superheros.

Can you help me with a bit of code please.

I am creating an estimated delivery date script which will echo the date plus 3 days excluding Saturday & Sunday. So far I have this:

<?php echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+3 days"));?>

which echos the date plus 3 days - how do I get it excluding Saturday & Sunday in its calculation.

thanks
in advance

Rob

try to put if conditions, getting day numbers using php date function. it may work.

I have tried the following but it doesn't work:

<?php
if (date('D') = 'Fri') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+6 days"))};
elseif (date('D') = 'Sat') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+5 days"))};
elseif (date('D') = 'Sun') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+4 days"))};
else $deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+3 days"));
echo $deliverydate ;?>

Am I heading in the right direction??

thanks

Hi

I think i got it right by using:

<?php
$today = date('l');

if ($today = 'Thursday') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+5 days"));}
elseif ($today = 'Friday') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+5 days"));}
elseif ($today = 'Saturday') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+4 days"));}
elseif ($today = 'Sunday') {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+3 days"));}
else {$deliverydate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+3 days"));}
echo $deliverydate ;
?>

thanks for the tips

Just a thought..

If the website is UK based & UK hosted do I need the set the time zone to GMT??

If so how??

Thanks

http://www.php.net/ini_set
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

comparisons need ==, = on its own is assignment and will always be true.