Calculate business days

Question

I need a method for adding \"business days\" in PHP. For example, Friday 12/5 + 3 business days = Wednesday 12/10.

At a minimum I need the code to understand weekend

Answer 1

Here is another solution without for loop for each day.

$from = new DateTime($first_date);
$to = new DateTime($second_date);

$to->modify('+1 day');
$interval = $from->diff($to);
$days = $interval->format('%a');

$extra_days = fmod($days, 7);
$workdays = ( ( $days - $extra_days ) / 7 ) * 5;

$first_day = date('N', strtotime($first_date));
$last_day = date('N', strtotime("1 day", strtotime($second_date)));
$extra = 0;
if($first_day > $last_day) {
   if($first_day == 7) {
       $first_day = 6;
   }

   $extra = (6 - $first_day) + ($last_day - 1);
   if($extra < 0) {
       $extra = $extra * -1;
   }
}
if($last_day > $first_day) {
    $extra = $last_day - $first_day;
}
$days = $workdays + $extra