I want to use strtotime("last Monday")
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The thing is, if today IS MONDAY, what does it return? It seems to be returning the date for the monday of last week. How can I make it return today's date in that case?
If you read the manual, there is an great example that describes exactly what you want to do http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.relative.php
strtotime('Monday this week');
Update: There appears to be a bug introduced in newer versions of PHP where this week
returns the wrong week when ran on Sundays. You can vote on the bug here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63740
Update 2: As of May 18th 2016, this has been fixed in PHP 5.6.22, PHP 7.0.7 and PHP 7.1-dev (and hopefully remains fixed in subsequent releases) as seen here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63740#1463570467