Php date issue clashing with this year & next year - php

Question

I get this outcome when I do the week of each year
week of45 date:2017-11-06
week of46 date:2017-11-13
week of47 date:2017-11-20
week of48 date:2017-11-27
week of49 date:2017-12-04
week of50 date:2017-12-11
week of51 date:2017-12-18
week of52 date:2017-12-25
week of1 date:1969-12-31
week of2 date:1969-12-31
week of3 date:1969-12-31
week of4 date:1969-12-31
week of5 date:1969-12-31
As you can see when it starts from 1 again, the date gets messed up,
here is the code:
for($i=0;$i< 13;$i++) {
$weekNumnew = $weekNum + $i;
$week_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("$thisYear-W$weekNumnew-1"));
if($weekNumnew > '52'){
$weekNumnew = $weekNumnew - 52;
$week_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("$nextyear-W$weekNumnew-1"));
}
echo "week of" . $weekNumnew . " date:" .$week_date . "<br>";
}
$weekNumnew starts from 45 it increase each week depending on the week of year date. Also $thisYear = '2017' & $nextyear = '2018'
Is there a way I can fix this? I thought it would be fixed when I added next year but it did not work, can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can use a combination of DateInterval and DatePeriod to generate these data for you:
<?php
$start = new DateTime('now');
$end = new DateTime('+3 years');
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 week');
$period = new DatePeriod($start, $interval, $end);
foreach ($period as $week) {
$monday = $week->modify('monday this week');
printf("Week %d. Date: %s \n", $monday->format('W'), $monday->format('Y-m-d'));
}