- ceil: documentation ( source)
- date: documentation ( source)
- max: documentation ( source)
- strtotime: documentation ( source)
<?php
$year = '2015';
$date = '01/01/' . $year;
$wk_baseline = date('w', strtotime($date)) - 1;
$wkdate = '01/04/2015';
$week = ceil(max(date('z', strtotime($wkdate)) + 1 - $wk_baseline,0) / 7);
echo $week;
?>