[SOLVED] date() question

[severndigital]

I would like to find out what day of the week a certain date falls on.

 

i know the command for doing it for today.

 

$today = date("w");

 

anyone know how to do it for a variable date? like say 2007-11-25

 

I can't seem to find that. I can write some whacked out function to it. But i was hoping for an easier way.

 

thanks,

chris

[only one]

Yea, the date manual is actually very straight forward: http://uk.php.net/date

 

$today = date("Y-m-d");

[severndigital]

that would be totally excellent if i need to get the DATE.

 

I need to know what day of the week, that particular date falls on.

 

please read the posts before responding to them.

[only one]

What do you mean by fall?

[severndigital]

I need to know what day of the week the date 2007-11-25 is on (monday, tuesday, wednesday etc...)

[kenrbnsn]

Use the function strtotime() in combination with the date() function:

<?php
$str = '2007-11-25';
echo date('l',strtotime($str));   // that's a lowercase L
?>

 

Ken

[severndigital]

NICE!!!  ;D

 

I knew there had to be a way.

 

 

thanks,

chris

[photowborama]

This line should work..

 

echo date("D", mktime(0,0,0,11,25,2007));

 

You can get a lot more sophisticated, but that basically does what you want.

There might be an easier way to do it, but I'm really new with PHP myself.