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 a recursive solution. It can easily be modified to only keep track of and return the latest date.

//  Returns a $numBusDays-sized array of all business dates, 
//  starting from and including $currentDate. 
//  Any date in $holidays will be skipped over.

function getWorkingDays($currentDate, $numBusDays, $holidays = array(), 
  $resultDates = array())
{
  //  exit when we have collected the required number of business days
  if ($numBusDays === 0) {
    return $resultDates;
  }

  //  add current date to return array, if not a weekend or holiday
  $date = date("w", strtotime($currentDate));
  if ( $date != 0  &&  $date != 6  &&  !in_array($currentDate, $holidays) ) {
    $resultDates[] = $currentDate;
    $numBusDays -= 1;
  }

  //  set up the next date to test
  $currentDate = new DateTime("$currentDate + 1 day");
  $currentDate = $currentDate->format('Y-m-d');

  return getWorkingDays($currentDate, $numBusDays, $holidays, $resultDates);
}

//  test
$days = getWorkingDays('2008-12-05', 4);
print_r($days);