Second Saturday of Month Function in PHP - php

Question

I found this PHP code credit to creator and want to implement it a different way:
The goal is to have the code automatically adjust the following statement to be the second Saturday of every month from now until eternity:
Next membership meeting: Saturday, MONTH, DAY, YEAR, 11 a.m. to noon.
As in: "Saturday, February 12, 2011, 11 a.m. to noon."
I am no PHP guru, can someone kindly edit it to work?
<?php
function nextMeeting($nextMonth = false) {
$day=date("j");
$month=date("n");
$year=date("Y");
if ($nextMonth) {
$day=1;
if ($month == 12) {
$month=1;
$year++;
} else {
$month++;
}
}
$dayofweek=date("w");
$firstOfMonth=date("w",mktime(0, 0, 0, $month , 1, $year ));
// figure out what date is the second Saturday of the month
if ( $firstOfMonth > 0 ) {
$firstSunday= 8 - $firstOfMonth;
} else {
$firstSunday= 1;
}
$firstSundayDate=date("D",mktime(0, 0, 0, $month ,
$firstSunday, $year));
// figure out what date the third monday of the month is
if ( $firstOfMonth > 1) {
$offSet = 8 - $firstOfMonth;
} elseif ( $firstOfMonth == 0 ) {
$offSet=1;
} else {
$offSet=0;
}
$thirdMonday= 15 + $offSet;
$thirdMondayDate=date("D",mktime(0, 0, 0, $month ,
$thirdMonday, $year));
// lets see which of these dates now applies
if ($day <= $firstSunday) {
// we didn't miss the first meeting
$nextMeeting=$firstSunday;
$nextMeetingDate=mktime(0, 0, 0, $month ,
$nextMeeting, $year);
} elseif ( ($day > $firstSunday) && ($day <= $thirdMonday) ) {
// we missed the first meeting of the month, but can still make the second
$nextMeeting=$thirdMonday;
$nextMeetingDate=mktime(0, 0, 0, $month ,
$nextMeeting, $year);
} else {
// we need to wait until next month
$nextMeetingDate=nextMeeting(1);
$nextMeeting=nextMeeting(1);
}
return $nextMeetingDate;
}
$meeting=nextMeeting();
echo "Next membership meeting is on " . date('l dS \of F Y', $meeting);
?>

Answer 1

How about you save about 5000 lines and try this
<?
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('second saturday of february 2011'));
Edit
Ok, I lied in the comments, I will write it for you.
<?
$now=date("U");
$monthyear=date("F Y");
$secondsat=date('U', strtotime($monthyear.' second saturday'));
if ($now>$secondsat) {
$monthyear=date("F Y", "next month");
$secondsat=date('U', strtotime($monthyear.' second saturday'));
}
echo date("m/d/Y",$secondsat);

Answer 2

You could change the function a little like this:
function nextMeeting($date = null)
{
$day = date("j", $date);
$month = date("n", $date);
$year = date("Y", $date);
// remove the nextMonth bit
$dayofweek=date("w", $date);
$firstOfMonth=date("w",mktime(0, 0, 0, $month , 1, $year ));
// all the same between here and the end
return $nextMeetingDate;
}
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++) {
$date = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m') + $i, date('d'), date('y'));
echo "Next membership meeting is on " . date('l dS \of F Y', nextMeeting($date));
}
That should get you the next 12 meetings after today...

Answer 3

I needed to find the DTS date range, so here's how I did it:
$year = date("Y");
$dtsStart = date('Y-m-d 02:00:00', strtotime("Second Sunday Of March {$year}"));
$dtsEnd = date('Y-m-d 02:00:00', strtotime("First Sunday Of November {$year}"));
And of course you can replace the month with some simple coding as well.