First Day of Month, Last Day of Month

[Anon]

Hello,

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I need the following functions done, and I can't do them because I'm a newbie:

1. first_day_of_month ($month, $year)
   it is to be passed a numerical month and year (ie. "november", 2000), and it is to return the day of the week of the first day in it. For example, if I pass ("november", 2000), it should return "wednesday".

2. last_day_of_month ($month, $year)
   it is to be passed a numerical month and year again (ie. "november", 2000), and it is to return the LAST day in both day-of-week form and day-of-month form. For example, if passed ("november", 2000), it should return an array:

array[0] = "thursday"
array[1] = "30"

Somebody please help me. Thank you in advance.

[Anon]

OK I figured them out:

// you must pass both $month and $year as numbers

function firstdayofmonth($month, $year)
{
	$ts = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year);
	$dt = getdate($ts);

	return $dt;
}

function lastdayofmonth($month, $year)
{
	// args:
	//		$month: month of the year as number
	//		$year: year as a number
	// returns:
	//		first day of the month as day of week (ie. Saturday)

	$ts = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month + 1, 0, $year);

	$dt = getdate($ts);

	return($dt);

}