Day of the week

ryclem

Does anyone know a quick way to return the day of the week for a calendar date (not the current UNIX timestamps)...For instance, say I want to update a calendar entry for 3/1/02...how can I display the day name with it (i.e. Monday)....

Any thoughts, let me know...

Thanks

Anon

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

ryclem

Thanks...that helped a lot, but I am still confused....I am trying to set the timestamp, but it is still using the UNIX timestamp, therefore always returning the current day (i.e. Wednesday)...any ideas on how to make it give me the corresponding day for the date given? Here is the code that I added...

$Link=mysql_connect($Host,$User,$Password);
mysql_select_db("clickdb");

$Query = "select class_id,teacher_name from $TableName where (class_name = '$selectbox')";
$Result = mysql_db_query($DBName,$Query,$Link);

$Date = ($sel_year."-".$sel_month."-".$sel_day);
$Date2 = ($sel_month."-".$sel_day."-".$sel_year);

// this brings back current day in error (output below)
setlocale (LC_TIME, "$Date");

while ($Row = mysql_fetch_array($Result)){
$teacher_name=($Row[teacher_name]);
$class_id=($Row[class_id]);
}

global $class_id;

$Query2 = "select * from $TableName2 where class_id = '$class_id' and date = '$Date'";
$Result2 = mysql_db_query($DBName,$Query2,$Link);

$Row2 = mysql_fetch_array($Result2);
$description=($Row2[description]);
?>