[RESOLVED] Number to Day

I was wondering if anyone as figured out a way to go from a day of the week in numerical format to the actual name. Such as:

0 - Sunday, 1 - Monday, ect... I can go from Name to number, but not back again.

I have tried:


date("l",mktime(0,0,0,0,$dow);
date("l",strtotime($dow);

And many variations of the above.

I can get names to spit out just the not the correct ones.

Any suggestions??

Thanx!

Well, coding purists might not like it, but why not just create an array...

$DayNames = split(",","Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday");

Then use: $DayNames[$DayNum]

I'm a coding purist, and I'd use an array:

$day_names = array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday');

That can go in a configuration file for l10n purposes. Then to go from name to number

$day_numbers = array_flip($day_names);

I am actually just pulling out the numbers stored in a database and was hoping to just do it in a single line, but not a huge deal.

I had thought of the array idea already, but just seeing if there was a quicker way!

Thanks for the help and suggestions.

There wouldn't be anything quicker. Anything quicker would amount to constructing the array on-the-fly and then using it.