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Problem
You want to find the date of the most recent Monday.
Solution
Figure out what today is, then figure out how many days ago was Monday.The previous monday is:
$today-$offset
Code
<?php
/*
Find Monday - prints out the previous monday.
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*/
$dow = date("w");
print "Today is dow $dow (Monday is 1)\n";
// How many days ago was monday?
$offset = ($dow -1);
if ($offset <0) {
$offset = 6;
}
print "Offset = $offset\n";
print "Previous monday is: ";
print date("M d, Y", mktime(0,0,0,date('m'), date('d')-$offset, date('Y') ));
?>
