get weekday from DD/MM/YYYY

[phppaper]

How can I get the day of the week from DD/MM/YYYY?? Thanks!

[Pikachu2000]

$date = 'DD/MM/YYYY';
echo date(l, strtotime($date));

[phppaper]

$date = 'DD/MM/YYYY';
echo date(l, strtotime($date));

 

Hey thx but how come I input:

 

$date = '27/10/2010';

echo date(l, strtotime($date));

 

but it shows up Saturday??

[BlueSkyIS]

strange, i get Wednesday

[Pikachu2000]

Just looked at the manual and it seems that it needs the string to be in a US english format, so 10/27/2010 will be fine, as would 27 OCT 2010, but 27/10/2010 is not. I had forgotten about that, sorry.

[phppaper]

I am using PHP 4 , is it what it causes the error??

[phppaper]

Just looked at the manual and it seems that it needs the string to be in a US english format, so 10/27/2010 will be fine, as would 27 OCT 2010, but 27/10/2010 is not.

Just looked at the manual and it seems that it needs the string to be in a US english format, so 10/27/2010 will be fine, as would 27 OCT 2010, but 27/10/2010 is not. I had forgotten about that, sorry.

 

Thanks, yes you are right, only US format supported. Do you know any other way to solve the issue with non US format??

[Pikachu2000]

You could convert the values to US format before using them in strtotime() if they're all stored as DD/MM/YYYY.

 

These dates aren't coming from a database query by chance, are they?

[phppaper]

You could convert the values to US format before using them in strtotime() if they're all stored as DD/MM/YYYY.

 

These dates aren't coming from a database query by chance, are they?

 

Well the date are stored in the MySQL as datetime format, so the method you have shown will need to do some operation. No chance for another method?