PHP Select every other Wednesday

Question

I need help Select every other Wednesday starting on 5/2/12. This code below selects every other Wednesday starting on the week it currently is. But i need to set the beginning

Answer 1

You could also use the DatePeriod and DateInterval classes to make life easier.

^{Standard disclaimer: both of the classes above require PHP >= 5.3.0.}

$number_of_dates = 10;

$start_date = new DateTime("5/2/12");
$interval   = DateInterval::createFromDateString("second wednesday");
$period     = new DatePeriod($start_date, $interval, $number_of_dates - 1);

foreach ($period as $date) {
    echo $date->format("m-d-Y") . "
" . PHP_EOL;
}