[Resolved] Day Name of given date in MM/DD/YYYY

[zapa]

looking for any hints on how to find the DAY name (mon, tue wen etc..) of a given date for example.. i want to know the what day July 4th 2004 (in 06/04/2004 ) would be on and answer should return Sunday

anyone dont this type of thing before i am sure someone has?

[LordShryku]

$date = "09/01/2004";
echo date("l", strtotime($date));

[drawmack]

<?php
$date = "07/04/2004";
$ts = strtotime($date);
echo date('F d, Y',$ts) . " falls on a " . date('l',$ts);
?>

[zapa]

Ohhh joy php! 🙂

thanks drawmack, LordShryku
see you around on the next problem 🙂

manual helps too if i looked doh!
// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date ("l", mktime(0,0,0,7,1,2000));