Php Puzzle - forthcoming dates

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Hi

Currently I need to login into my website every month and update the date of the next event - the third saturday of every month.

There must be a way for php to help me do this less often.

I thought the smplest way would be for me to create an array of dates over the next 12 months: ie

(17th March, 21st April, 19th May... and so on)

       //dates
       $dates = array('17/03/2012', '21/04/2012', '19/05/2012');
 
        //SET CURRENT DATE
        $today = date("d.m.y"); 

And then pick from the array the first date which is greater than the current date.

But I'm not sure how I would do that?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks