I want to check if there is any sat or sun between two dates in php.
$fromDate = '03/21/2016';
$toDate = '03/28/2016';
I've tried other solution asked here but they didn't worked well. I want it in laravel 5.2 so if there is any easy way to handle this please guide me. thanks!
Update i also want to get if there is weekday(mon-fri) between two dates. i need it because user can select sat and Sunday only so in this condition I've to hide weekday option from him. So what I need is a method which tells me if start and end date has weekend or weekdays or both in it.
You can use date("N") to get the current day of the week and add the difference of days between your dates... If this is bigger or equal to 6 than it's a weekend between or one date is in the weekend.
//Get current day of week. For example Friday = 5
$day_of_week = date("N", strtotime($fromDate));
$days = $day_of_week + (strtotime($toDate) - strtotime($fromDate)) / (60*60*24);
//strtotime(...) - convert a string date to unixtimestamp in seconds.
//The difference between strtotime($toDate) - strtotime($fromDate) is the number of seconds between this 2 dates.
//We divide by (60*60*24) to know the number of days between these 2 dates (60 - seconds, 60 - minutes, 24 - hours)
//After that add the number of days between these 2 dates to a day of the week. So if the first date is Friday and days between these 2 dates are: 3 the sum will be 5+3 = 8 and it's bigger than 6 so we know it's a weekend between.
if($days >= 6){
//we have a weekend. Because day of week of first date + how many days between this 2 dates are greater or equal to 6 (6=Saturday)
} else {
//we don't have a weekend
}