Get days of the week and their week number in PHP - php

Question

I'm a new to PHP and don't know if my request is possible:
I'd need to get an array with the days of the current week and also indicate for each day if it's the first, second, third, fourth or fifth occurrence of that date for the month.
Examples
For the 1st week of August 2016, it would be:
monday1
tuesday1
wednesday1
thursday1
friday1
saturday1
sunday1
But for the last week of August 2016 (which begins in August and ends in September) it would be:
monday5
tuesday5
wednesday1
thursday1
friday1
saturday1
sunday1
I tried this, but it only works for the current day.
$week_of_the_month = ceil(date('d', $time)/7);
$jd = cal_to_jd(CAL_GREGORIAN,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y"));
echo jddayofweek($jd,1).$week_of_the_month;

Answer 1

$d = new DateTime();
$days = [];
for ($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++) {
$date = $d->format('j');
$days[$date] = $d->format('l - ') . ceil($date/7);
$d->add(new DateInterval('P1D'));
}
That will work for the current date, but you can test it on weeks that cross over two months by setting a specific date to work with:
$d = new DateTime('2016-08-31');
The result is as follows:
print_r($days);
Array
(
[31] => Wednesday - 5
[1] => Thursday - 1
[2] => Friday - 1
[3] => Saturday - 1
[4] => Sunday - 1
[5] => Monday - 1
[6] => Tuesday - 1
)
If you want the dates to always start on the Monday of the current week, the DateTime constructor allows you to pass in a string as such:
$d = new DateTime('monday this week');
Today is Thursday, but it gives:
Array
(
[1] => Monday - 1
[2] => Tuesday - 1
[3] => Wednesday - 1
[4] => Thursday - 1
[5] => Friday - 1
[6] => Saturday - 1
[7] => Sunday - 1
)
Changing Language
If you want to change the language of the date output, that is a separate topic (see here). You will need to have the locales/extensions installed on your system. If you don't want to go down that route, you could just map the days into your language yourself:
$intlDays = [
'Monday' => 'Lundi',
'Tuesday' => 'Mardi',
'Wednesday' => 'Mercredi',
'Thursday' => 'Jeudi',
'Friday' => 'Vendredi',
'Saturday' => 'Samedi',
'Sunday' => 'Dimanche'
];
$d = new DateTime('monday this week');
$days = [];
for ($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++) {
$date = $d->format('j');
$output = $d->format('l - ') . ceil($date/7);
$output = str_replace(array_keys($intlDays), $intlDays, $output);
$days[$date] = $output;
$d->add(new DateInterval('P1D'));
}