issue with date

[chrislive]

I am wanting to know what day the first of the month is (eg Mon/Sun) but this doesnt work what am i doing wrong?

$first_day_of_month = date("D", "2005-07-01");

[mrhappiness]

string date ( string format [, int timestamp] )

"2005-07-01" is no timestamp... could that be the reason...

[man]strtotime[/man] may be of help for example

[vaaaska]

Something like this perhaps?

function  first_day_of_month($month,$year)
{
  $date = getdate(mktime(12, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year));
  return  $date['wday'];
}

http://www.php.net/getdate/

[chrislive]

hmmm Im still a bit confused actually sorry 😛

so say I have the month value (october) in numberical value 10
how can I use this function?

$selected_date = date("F", 10);

[chrislive]

got it: echo date('F',mktime(0,0,0,10,1,2006));