Get Day from a Date

[gple]

If I have a variable that is a date (2004-01-01). How do I get the day of the week in which that date falls on.

[revraz]

http://us3.php.net/strtotime

[soycharliente]

You're looking for the date() function.

 

<?php
$var = "2004-01-01";
echo date("l", $var); // lowercase L, a full textual representation of the day of the week
?>

[kenrbnsn]

That won't work, since the date() function is expecting to see a UNIX time stamp (integer) for the second parameter. Use:

<?php
$var = "2004-01-01";
echo date("l", strtotime($var)); // lowercase L, a full textual representation of the day of the week
?>

instead.

 

Ken