Know the day of a week from date given

[janejiang]

Can I get the day of a week when given the date of the day?
Such as, I am given "March 11th, 2002" how could I know it's a Monday or Tuesday or ...?

Thanks

[piersk]

How are you given the date?

[khaine]

You will need to use the date function and the strtotime function.

eg

<?
$date_in="march 11th 2002";
$ts=strtotime($date_in);
echo "the date ".date("jS M Y", $ts)." is a ".date("l", $ts)
?>

Mark.