Get a Specific WeekDay date after a date - laravel

I am trying to implement a delivery process that occurs at specific days of week for each region. So, in a Region that delivers on Tuesdays and Thursdays I need to be able to get next eligible date based on the date the product will be available. So, if I will have it read on the 5th, O need to get the date for the next Tuesday or Thursday.
I started implementing it on Carbon, but I and creating a lot of loops through dates, testing dates and checking if its valid. something of getting product availability date and checking each day after it if its a monday Tuesday or Thursday ... etc ///I am sure, using Carbon, will have a better way to do it.
Any hint on how to do that ?
Thanks for any help!

Define a date:
$date = Carbon::now();
Now you have to get the day:
$day = $date->dayOfWeekIso
If $date is monday, then you will get a integer and that would be 1. That is because: 1 (monday), 2 (Tuesday), ..., 7 (sunday).
Now that you have this number you just need to apply some simple logic.
If the number you get is a 2 (Tuesday) then you will need to add two days to your $date in order to get the delivery date:
$delivery_date = $date->addDays(2);
If your day is equal 4 (Thursday), then you need to add 6 days to your $date so that would give you the next Tuesday:
$delivery_date = $date->addDays(6);
I think that's what you want! I hope it helps!

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Can't get monthy CarbonPeriod to behave as desired

In the project I'm working on I have a daily command that basically checks the date of the last record in the database and tries to fetch data from an API from the day after and then each month after that (the data is published monthly).
Basically, the last record's date is 2019-08-30. I'm mocking as if I were running the task on 2019-09-01 with
$test = Carbon::create(2019,9,1,4);
Carbon::setTestNow($test);
I then create a monthly period between the next day of the last record's date and the last day of the current month like so:
$period = CarbonPeriod::create($last_record_date->addDay(), '1 month', $last_day_of_current_month);
Successfully generating a period with start_date = 2019-08-31 and end_date = 2019-09-30. Which I use in a simple foreach.
What I expected to happen is that it runs twice, once for August and once for September, but it's running only once for the start date. It's probably adding a month and going past the end date, but I don't know how to force the behaviour I'm looking for.
TL;DR:
$period = CarbonPeriod::create('2019-08-31', '1 month', '2019-09-30');
foreach ($period as $dt) {
echo $dt->format("Y-m") . "<br>\n";
}
This will print just 2019-08, while I expect 2019-08 and 2019-09. What's the best way to achieve that?
Solution :-
You can store actual date in $actual_day and current date for occurring monthly in $current_day. Put a check on comparing both dates, if not matched then make it on the same day it will skip 30,31 case in case of February month.
$current_date = $current_date->addMonths(1);
if($current_date->day != $actual_day){
$date = Carbon::parse($date->year."-".$date->month."-".$actual_day);
}
Your start date is 2019-08-31. Adding a month takes you to 2019-09-31. 2019-09-31 doesn't exist so instead you get 2019-10-01, which is after your end date. To avoid this I'd suggest you use a more regular interval such as 30 days.
Otherwise you're going to have to rigorously define what you mean by "a month later". If the start date is 31st Jan is the next date 28th February? Is the month after 28th or 31st March? How do leap years affect things?

Laravel/PHP/Carbon parse a date to one and three days from now() to the hour, disregarding minutes and seconds

I'm using Laravel 5.4 and Carbon to find dates that are exactly one day and three days prior to a laravel job (to the hour) to send notifications. So for example if the date was 2019-03-10 18:00:03 or 2019-03-10 18:15:34, I'd like to send a notification tomorrow at 2019-03-07 18:00:00 and another at 2019-03-09 18:00:00. I'd like to do this in an eloquent query, but not really sure how to "lazy match" by day and hour. If I have an Appointment model with a start_date timestamp, I know I can do exact matches by day or date, but I want to find matches that disregard the hours/seconds. I was considering something along these lines:
$oneDayAppointments = Appointment::whereDay(
'start_date',
Carbon::now()->addDay()->day
)->get();
...would get me any appointments where the start_date is a day from now. Now how would I hone it to the day and hour. If I were to just use a where clause:
$oneDayAppointments = Appointment::where(
'start_date',
Carbon::now()->addHours(24)
)->get();
...I could get exact matches, but only if the minutes/seconds were a match as well. Thanks!
Working on my comment above, this should do it
$tomorrowStart = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', Carbon::now()->addDay()->format('Y-m-d H:00:00'));
$tomorrowEnd = $tomorrowStart->copy()->addHour()->subSecond();
//whereBetween('start_date', [$tomorrowStart, $tomorrowEnd])
https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/queries

WebI Adding Weekend Values to Last Working Day in cross tab

Based on "Day" I should calculate the sales in Cross tab.
Saturday & Sunday values should be added only for Friday (Last working day). Below examples give an idea...(cond: if "DAY is Fri then add values for Fri+Sat+Sun)
Please assist. I'm struggling hard with the formulas in WebI
To give more detailed view..Actually i'm using Cross tab --> Day wise across organization.
Day----USA-----UK-----INDIA
Day----USA-----UK-----INDIA
THU-----23------ 12-----36
FRI------65------12------10
SAT------9--------16-----24
SUN------2--------24----56
FRI------3------ 10-----37
SAT-----29------ 06-----87
SUN-----03------04-----13
Result should be: DAY only Fri = (Fri + Sat + Sun) rest same values
Day----USA-----UK-----INDIA
THU-----23------ 12-----36
FRI------76------52------90
SAT------9--------16-----24
SUN------2--------24----56
FRI------3------ -20-----137
SAT-----29------ 06-----87
SUN-----03------04-----13
If you create a variable with the following formula, and replace the Day dimension in your current cross tab, you should get the output that you need:
=If [Day] InList ("SAT";"SUN") Then "FRI" Else [Day]
Basically, if the value for Day is SAT or SUN, it will return FRI, else it will return the original value. Web Intelligence should then automatically aggregate the values accordingly.

Return date if within date range

I have an object which contains a list of due dates, I am trying to build a system which returns the due date when a specified date is 1 month or less before the due date. It should return the due date in this format "1st Feb 2009". Let me clarify, using my current code
#Build array of estate objects
estate.due_dates = "1st Feb, 3rd May, 1st Aug, 5th Nov"
estate2.due_dates = "28th Feb, 31st May, 31st Aug, 30th Nov"
estates = [estate,estate2]
set_due_date_on_estates("1st Jan 2009",estates) #Run function - should return "1st Feb 2009,28th Feb 2009"
def set_due_date_on_estates(date,estates)
estates.each{|estate|
estate.due_dates.split(",").each{|due_date|
((date)..(date >> 1)).each{|current_date|
estate.set_reminder(due_date + current_date.strftime("%Y")) if current_date.strftime('%d %m') ==
Date.parse(due_date).strftime('%d %m')
}
}
end
}
The issue I am having, is that my list of due dates doesnt have a Year, so I am looping through my range and checking if the dates are equal using the format "%d %m". If so I am setting the reminder in the estate object by using the current "due date" in the loop concatenated with the Year of the "current date" in the loop.
Am not too happy with the code, in particular the nested loops and wondered if there was a better way I could deal with checking that the due_dates where in the date range, even though the due_dates dont have a year. Thanks
You could use date parsers: Kronos, chronic
Example for kronos:
def parse_date(date)
Kronos.parse(date.sub(/\d{4}$/, ''))
end
This function gives you a Kronos object without year which is more easily to compare, build range and so on.
Yes you can use Chronic and also you can write a worker which will keep checking if the specified date is 1 month or less before the due date at regular interval. And ask that worker to do something if result is true (say send you an email or anything if date is within due date) you can find more information about worker by googling Resque and Redis. Another option would be to convert both dates on some base reference and then do the calculations.

Ruby/ice_cube: Exclude whole day for hourly recurring event

Just started playing around with ice_cube I've got a weekly schedule (with a granularity of half an hour) created
schedule = IceCube::Schedule.new(Time.now.change(:min => 30))
with several rules (let's say 20) such as e.g.
IceCube::Rule.weekly.day(:tuesday).hour_of_day(14).minute_of_hour(30)
or
IceCube::Rule.weekly.day(:wednesday).hour_of_day(10).minute_of_hour(0)
Now I'd like to exclude a full day, which would subsequently exclude all occurrences during this full day.
I've tried
schedule.add_exception_date [DATE]
but it seems that my exception has to match the event exactly.
Is there a way to get this done without looping through all rules and creating exception for the exact times for the date specified?
Update:
To make a better example:
Weekly schedule:
* Every monday at 14:40
* Every monday at 15:00
* Every thursday at 16:00
* Every saturday at 10:00
Exception date:
Tuesday, 13th of September 2011
=> For the week from Monday 12th to Sunday 18th I'd like to get only the occurrences on Thursday and Saturday.
One solution could look something like this, but it's a little icky:
schedule = IceCube::Schedule.from_yaml([PERSISTED SCHEDULE])
occurrences = schedule.occurrences_between([START TIME], [END TIME])
exceptions = schedule.exdates.map(&:to_date)
occurrences.reject {|occurrence|
exceptions.include?(occurrence.to_date)
}
—Any better ideas?
Since there seems to be no other solution and in order to close this question, here’s what I'm using (as described in an update to the original question above already):
schedule = IceCube::Schedule.from_yaml([PERSISTED SCHEDULE])
occurrences = schedule.occurrences_between([START TIME], [END TIME])
exceptions = schedule.exdates.map(&:to_date)
occurrences.reject {|occurrence|
exceptions.include?(occurrence.to_date)
}

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