Print Y-m-d list of business dates between two dates from MySQL using PHP

Question

I have this MySQL table:

desc studentabsence;
+---------------------------+-------------+
| Field                     | Type        |
+-------------         


        

Answer 1

// Date strings from DB
$startDate = '2012-08-01';
$endDate = '2012-08-08';

// Convert to UNIX timestamps
$currentTime = strtotime($startDate);
$endTime = strtotime($endDate);

// Loop until we reach the last day
$result = array();
while ($currentTime <= $endTime) {
  if (date('N', $currentTime) < 6) {
    $result[] = date('Y-m-d', $currentTime);
  }
  $currentTime = strtotime('+1 day', $currentTime);
}

// Show the result
// You could loop the array to pretty-print it, or do it within the above loop
print_r($result);

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