PHP strtotime() “first monday february” returns second monday if february 1st is a monday

Question

I\'m working on a PHP function which calculates holidays:

function holidays($country = 1, $timespan_start = 0, $timespan_end = 0)

The holid

Answer 1

Looks like you are just missing an "of":

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('first monday of february 2010'));

will give the expected result. See the PHP Manual on Relative dates for the various input formats.

Answer 2

Depending on your version of PHP the 'of' statement may or may not work. As another solution try:

echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime('monday February 2010'));

will return the first monday of February 2010. Works for all days as well.