knowing the weekday from a date

[jiehuang001]

I know that I can use date("w", the_date) to get a number which represents the weekday. For example, given the date of 6/2/2004, I will get "3", which means Wednesday. My question is "is there a function that returns the string of Wednesday instead of the number 3?"

Thanks.

Jie Huang

[hollyspringer]

date('l', the_date)

while 'l' is a lowercase L

[TheDefender]

Just as a side note, you can use:

date("D", the_date)

to get the three letter abbreviation of the day as well. (Mon, Tue, Wed, etc....)