I assume I use getdate() for this?

kwmumonkey

I have a variable...

$date= $showdetails["DATE_FORMAT(date, '%M %d, %Y')"];

this equates to...

$date = "June 13, 2003"

That's all great.... but I also need to get the day of the week into another variable...

i.e. $dateday = "Wednesday"

Can I use getdate() for this or what do I do?

Thora_Fan

I personally use the date() function in combination with strtotime() to format most if not all of my dates.

For instance, something you need would be like

$dateday = date("l", strtotime($date));

The l in the date function is one of many modifiers available.

Just make sure that whatever is in strtotime() is a valid date. I usually use month/day/year to ensure this.

You can read more about date() and strtotime() at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

This is just what works for me, someone else might have an easier solution.

kwmumonkey

You are my New God!!!

Thank you very much... that worked perfectly!!

Thora_Fan

No problem. One thing I should have put in the last post was that you can get Wednesday June 13, 2003 all in one line from the DATE_FORMAT() function in MySQL (which I am assuming you're using as you have it in your code).

For instance, you could have written it as

DATE_FORMAT(date, '%W %M %d %Y')

Unless you needed it separated. When I first started working with date/time stuff in PHP, I relied heavily upon its functions but found that you can save a lot of code by using the plethora of functions MySQL provides you.

http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Reference.html#Date_and_time_functions

Of course, if you aren't using MySQL, it's really a moot point.