I think this relationship should be true and come in handy:
Week of the month = Week of the year - Week of the year of first day of month + 1
We also need to make sure that “overlapping” weeks from the previous year are handeled correctly – if January 1st is in week 52 or 53, it should be counted as week 0. In a similar fashion, if a day in December is in the first week of the next year, it should be counted as 53. (Previous versions of this answer failed to do this properly.)
<?php
function weekOfMonth($date) {
//Get the first day of the month.
$firstOfMonth = strtotime(date("Y-m-01", $date));
//Apply above formula.
return weekOfYear($date) - weekOfYear($firstOfMonth) + 1;
}
function weekOfYear($date) {
$weekOfYear = intval(date("W", $date));
if (date('n', $date) == "1" && $weekOfYear > 51) {
// It's the last week of the previos year.
return 0;
}
else if (date('n', $date) == "12" && $weekOfYear == 1) {
// It's the first week of the next year.
return 53;
}
else {
// It's a "normal" week.
return $weekOfYear;
}
}
// A few test cases.
echo weekOfMonth(strtotime("2020-04-12")) . " "; // 2
echo weekOfMonth(strtotime("2020-12-31")) . " "; // 5
echo weekOfMonth(strtotime("2020-01-02")) . " "; // 1
echo weekOfMonth(strtotime("2021-01-28")) . " "; // 5
echo weekOfMonth(strtotime("2018-12-31")) . " "; // 6
To get weeks that starts with sunday, simply replace date("W", ...)
with strftime("%U", ...)
.