I'm building a calendar, I have a question

[jmarco]

Question:

What if I want to know if January 1st, YYYY is a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc?

YYYY can be any year in the past, present or future.

Is there a way to calculate this?

[PHPdev]

I think you are looking to use the date() function.

date("w",strtotime("2002-01-01")) will return the day of week for Jan 1 2002

date requires a timestamp that is why I used strtotime()

You can find more at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

[feldon23]

{EDIT: Haha I always take the long way around...}

XX = month in digits
YY = day
ZZZZ can be any year in the past, present or future.

$tempdate = getdate (mktime (1, 1, 1, XX, YY, ZZZZ));
$tempdate = jddayofweek ($tempdate['wday'], 1);

echo $tempdate;

Ok, to extrapolate on PHPdev's post,

$tempdate = jddayofweek(date("w",strtotime("2002-01-01")));

[jmarco]

This is awesome, thanks guys.

I put in the patch on my calendar, it works great.