Day difference without weekends

Very easy with my favourites: DateTime, DateInterval and DatePeriod

$start = new DateTime('2012-09-06');
$end = new DateTime('2012-09-11');
// otherwise the  end date is excluded (bug?)
$end->modify('+1 day');

$interval = $end->diff($start);

// total days
$days = $interval->days;

// create an iterateable period of date (P1D equates to 1 day)
$period = new DatePeriod($start, new DateInterval('P1D'), $end);

// best stored as array, so you can add more than one
$holidays = array('2012-09-07');

foreach($period as $dt) {
    $curr = $dt->format('D');

    // substract if Saturday or Sunday
    if ($curr == 'Sat' || $curr == 'Sun') {
        $days--;
    }

    // (optional) for the updated question
    elseif (in_array($dt->format('Y-m-d'), $holidays)) {
        $days--;
    }
}


echo $days; // 4

In my case I needed the same answer as OP, but wanted something a little smaller. @Bojan's answer worked, but I didn't like that it doesn't work with DateTime objects, required using timestamps, and was comparing against strings instead of the actual objects themselves (which feels hacky)... Here's a revised version of his answer.

function getWeekdayDifference(\DateTime $startDate, \DateTime $endDate)
{
    $days = 0;

    while($startDate->diff($endDate)->days > 0) {
        $days += $startDate->format('N') < 6 ? 1 : 0;
        $startDate = $startDate->add(new \DateInterval("P1D"));
    }

    return $days;
}

Per @xzdead's comment if you'd like this to be inclusive of the start and end date:

function getWeekdayDifference(\DateTime $startDate, \DateTime $endDate)
{
    $isWeekday = function (\DateTime $date) {
        return $date->format('N') < 6;
    };

    $days = $isWeekday($endDate) ? 1 : 0;

    while($startDate->diff($endDate)->days > 0) {
        $days += $isWeekday($startDate) ? 1 : 0;
        $startDate = $startDate->add(new \DateInterval("P1D"));
    }

    return $days;
}

The easiest and fastest way to get difference without weekends is by using Carbon library.

Here's an example how to use it:

<?php

$from = Carbon\Carbon::parse('2016-05-21 22:00:00');
$to = Carbon\Carbon::parse('2016-05-21 22:00:00');
echo $to->diffInWeekdays($from);

use DateTime:

$datetime1 = new DateTime('2012-09-06');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2012-09-11');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
$woweekends = 0;
for($i=0; $i<=$interval->d; $i++){
    $datetime1->modify('+1 day');
    $weekday = $datetime1->format('w');

    if($weekday !== "0" && $weekday !== "6"){ // 0 for Sunday and 6 for Saturday
        $woweekends++;  
    }

}

echo $woweekends." days without weekend";

// 4 days without weekends

Day difference without weekends

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