Carbon - get last weekday from date

You could create an array with all the weekdays in it so you can use the Key value pairs to count up/down depending on what day it is. So say it is indeed Saturday, that would be an index of 5, thursday would be 3 Which means you can subtract 2 days to get the last thursday.

Thanks @Hawkleaf ! I'll try it as soon as possible :-)

Regards,

why not just use php's vanilla strtotime and ask for "last Thursday" or whatever you need?

Isn't this looking for the last Thursday from the current date? Is it possible to depend it from a specific date?

Of cause, this would make it much easier.

Regards,

you can pass the date to use as base

Something like:

$searchDay = 'Thursday';
$searchDate = new Carbon(); //or whatever Carbon instance you're using
$lastThursday = Carbon::createFromTimeStamp(strtotime("last $searchDay", $searchDate->timestamp));

$day = Thursday;

Carbon\Carbon::parse("last {$day}");

Thanks @Cronix !

@tykus : With this code, I can't pass a base date (reference last {day} from now, not a specific day).

Regards,

today()->previous('Friday') or $model->created_at->copy()->previous('Friday')

You could even use the helper function now()->parse('Monday'); and to get the previous day just use now()->previous('Monday'); If today is Tuesday, it would return the date of yesterday (Monday)