[SOLVED] Returing the day of a date?

[Solarpitch]

Hi,

 

I am currently assigning the date in the format of (mdy) to the variable $date. Want I want to do is check if the day is a Sunday. So far I have...

 

<?php

	$d=date(N);

	if ($d=="7")
	{
  		   //do something...
	}

?>

 

but this just checks todays day. I want to check the day of a specific date. So if the user selects a date 3 months in the future I want to see if that date falls on a Sunday.

[GingerRobot]

Try:

 

<?php
$date = "07-07-2008";
echo date('l',strtotime($date));//using l will save you the stack of if statements -- it returns the day for you.
?>

[strayduck]

If you use mktime() to take your desired date and turn it into a Unix timestamp, you can use the date() function in the same way you do now but pass it the timestamp you just made with mktime (as, if you don't give date a timestamp to parse, it will assume you want the current timestamp)

 

$userdate = mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year);

 

 

[Solarpitch]

Thanks for that guys. I tried your example GingerRobot and it works fine for what I need.