How can I list the MM/DD/YY for the next 4 Thursdays?

[ajcolburn]

Hi there,
I'm fairly new to PHP and can't work out how to do this:
I'd like to list the short date of the next 4 'thursdays' in a drop-down menu, e.g.

The date today is 01/02/2007 so ideally the drop down would contain the following options:

01/04/2007
01/11/2007
01/18/2007
01/25/2007

There must be a simple solution!
Many thanks for any help or hints in advance,
Alex.

[aparna8]

[PHP]
//get Numeric representation of today's day
$day = date('w');

//Get the day difference
if ($day <= 4) {
$dayDiff = 4 - $day;
} else {
$dayDiff = (6 - $day + 1) + 4 ;
}

for ($i=0;$i<4;$i++ ) {

$Thursdays[] = date('m-d-Y',mktime(0,0,0 ,date('m'),date ('d') + $dayDiff + (7 * $i),date('Y'))) ;
}

print_r($Thursd ays);
[/PHP]

[ajcolburn]

Aparna, thanks so much for that, I wasn't expecting such a quick and straight-forward response!

Kind regards,
Alex.