Using date function

[amrigo]

Hi
I would like to show the day of the week, (like Monday, Sunday...)after the user submit a form where he fill a text fied with the format: dd/mm/yyyy

I am using :

$POST['day'] = date("l");
echo $POST['day'] ;

but it just print the actual day and do not change when i choose any date

Thank´s in advance

[sfullman]

When you use date('blah blah') without a second parameter, it ALWAYS returns the current date, day, second whatever.

You need to use a second parameter, which is in the form of a UNIX timestamp, here's the code:

if(($x=strtotime($_POST['theirdate']))==-1){
     //they submitted a bad date format

}else{
     //the $x above will be used in date()
     echo "That day is: " . date("l", $x); 
}

check the php manual about strtotime

[amrigo]

Great! it is working!

But give me the wrong day of the week, i choose Sunday but it print´s Saturday ...

As i use european date time format, (dd/mm/yyyy)

i do must use the setlocale function to match it?