How to save date and day into separate array without sundays? - php

Question

I am trying to save a series of five dates into an array to be called. The date has no range since it is taking the current date to start with.
I would like to save without any Sundays as delivery is not an option for Sunday in my case. I am saving both dates and day in separate arrays.
$date = new DateTime("+ 1 day", new DateTimeZone('Asia/Thailand') );
for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++) {
$date->modify("+1 weekday");
$delivery_dates[] = $date->format("m/d/Y");
$delivery_days[] = $date->format("l, d F Y");
}
At the moment, I am getting the following -
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (inclusive of the dates for each day in d F Y format)
Is there a way I can get the following -
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (inclusive of the dates for each day in d F Y format)?
For every Sunday I would like to +1 day so it makes an available day for delivery, on Monday.
I have used the following -
for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++) {
$date->modify("+1 weekday");
if ($date->format("N") !== 7 {
$delivery_dates[] = $date->format("m/d/Y");
$delivery_days[] = $date->format("l, d F Y");
}
}
The codes above still display Sunday.

Answer 1

$from = '2018-10-10';
$to = '2018-12-10';
$start = new \DateTime($from);
$end = new \DateTime($to);
$interval = \DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day'); // 1 day === P1D, 5 month and 5 years === P5M5Y
$period = new \DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end); // A date period allows iteration over a set of dates and times, recurring at regular intervals, over a given period.
// new \DatePeriod(10-10-2010, 5, 30-10-2010) ===> [10-10-2010, 15-10-2010, 20-10-2010, 25-10-2010, 30-10-2010]
$result = [];
foreach ($period as $day) {
if (! in_array($day->format('w'), [0, 6])) { // check every date in period, ->format('w'): w - number of day; Monday = 1 or 7 (depends on wat day declared first)
$result['date'][] = $day->format("m/d/Y");
$result['day'][] = $day->format("l, d F Y");
}
}

Answer 2

Assuming you can use Carbon, one way to implement is to generate the range with the help of a while-loop, and only add a date if it is not a Sunday, while ensuring that you'll get the required amount of days, in your case, 5.
/**
* #param int $amount
* #return Carbon[]
*/
public function getDeliveryDates($amount = 5): array
{
$days = [];
$current = Carbon::today();
while (\count($days) < $amount) {
$day = clone $current; // addDay works on instance, cloning it
$day->addDay();
$current = $day; // setting current to current day, so that it will iterate
if ($current->isSunday()) {
continue;
}
$days[] = $current;
}
return $days;
}
Then you can just format your date. If you still want two arrays with the info, you just need to iterate over the generated array:
$formattedDates = [];
$formattedDays = [];
foreach (getDeliveryDates() as $date) {
$formattedDates[] = $date->format('m/d/Y');
$formattedDays[] = $date->format('l, d F Y');
}