Add days to JFactory::getDate() excluding Weekends (Sat and Sun)

Question

I need to add 15 days more to current date in Joomla excluding Sat and Sun.

I added it with following code:

JFactory::getDate()->modify('+15 days');

But it doesn't exclude Saturday and Sunday. Any idea how can I do it?

Answer 1

You should be able to use the following if you want to add 15 working/business days:

$date     = JFactory::getDate();
$newDate  = new JDate($date . ' +15 Weekday');  
$toFormat = $newDate->format('Y-m-d');

Today is the 24th April 2015, so $date (excluding the time), will output the following:

2015-04-24

and $toFormat will output the following:

2015-05-15