day at start of month

[Anon]

Hi,
Does anyone have a function that will return what the day is at the start of the month
eg:
dayatstart(dd,mm,yyyy)

so dayatstart(01,09,2000) would return a value corresponding to friday?

any help would be gratefully appreciated,
Paul

[Anon]

function dayatstart ($day, $month, $year) {
return date("l", mktime(0,0,0,$month, $day, $year));
}

date("l" (lowercase "L") will return the textual name of the day (i.e. "Friday")

or

function dayatstart($day, $month, $year) {
return date("w", mktime(0,0,0,$month, $day, $year));
}

date("w" will return an int corresponding to the day of the week (0 = Sunday, 6 = Saturday).

All of this can be found here:

http://www.php.net/manual/function.date.php

Hope that helps!

Chris King