Get day from date?

[Perad]

I was just wondering how I would get the day of the week from the string "12/07/07".

[hostfreak]

http://www.php.net/date

 

<?php
//php date() function with "l (lowercase 'L')" format character
echo date('l', '12/07/07');

?>

[Barand]

if that is m/d/y

 

 

<?php
$dt = '07/12/07';
echo date('D', strtotime($dt));

/**
* for d/m/y
*/
list($d, $m, $y) =  explode('/', $dt);
echo date('D', strtotime("$m/$d/$y")); 
?>

 

see www.php.net/date

[AndyB]

I was just wondering how I would get the day of the week from the string "12/07/07".

 

As you'll see from the answers, it depends on what the highly ambiguous 12/07/07 means.  Could be d/m/y; m/d/y; y/m/d; y/d/m etc.  The 'standard', ISO date representation of Y-m-d (e.g. 2007-08-17 for today) is always the best bet for a database-stored date since you can also use it for ordering logically or in calculations very simply - and you can use php to re-present it in your own favourite form of date display.