php find out day of the week from string.

[maxlibin]

i have a string like this "20 Dec, 2011", is there a way find out which day of the week is this?

[Psycho]

Yes. What day of week value are you wanting? Mon - Sun or 1 - 7? You would want to use date() along with strtotime().

 

After testing it looks like strtotime() can't use that string format as it is. You'll need to remove the comma.

$date_string = "20 Dec 2013";
//Convert to timestamp
$date_timestamp = strtotime(str_replace(',', '', $date_string));
 
//Output day of week string
echo date('D', $date_timestamp); //Output: Friday
 
//Output day of week number
echo date('N', $date_timestamp); //Output: 5

Edited May 2, 2013 by Psycho

[DaveyK]

var_dump(date('l', strtotime('20 Dec, 2011'))); // "Friday"

Or, what Psycho said.

Edited May 2, 2013 by DaveyK

[maxlibin]

thanks guy, appreciated.