datetime - php strtotime "last monday" if today is monday?

Question

I want to use strtotime("last Monday").

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?

Answer 1

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