Finding Day name from date?

VestanPance

Greetings,

I trying to get the name of the day from a date. Let's say I have something like: 2007-02-15, how would I get "Thurs" from that? (the month name I have already via an array).

Thanks for the help.
Sean-Paul(VestanPance)

nocando

Maybe there is an easier way but I use this syntax:

$my_time= mktime(0,0,0,12,31,2007);
$start_day = date('D', $my_time);

VestanPance

Perfect! Thanks so much.

Installer

Of course, that way you'll have to parse out the individual parts of the date (unless it will always be 2007-02-15):

$date_arr = explode('-', $date);
$my_time = mktime(0, 0, 0, $date_arr[1], $date_arr[2], $date_arr[0]);
$start_day = date('D', $my_time);

Using strtotime() would be more direct and flexible:

$start_day = date('D', strtotime($date));

And you can save some array storage also:

$start_month = date('M', strtotime($date));

Date and Time Functions

VestanPance

Thanks for that Installer. Leaner is better.

I am a bit confused about your first example. Where did the variable $date_ts come from? Should it be $my_time instead?

thanks

Installer

Yeah, it should. Thanks.

Leaner is better.

Very often. But too often what's considered "lean" sacrifices other stuff, such as readability, expandability, and easy maintenance. Take the ternary operator, for example...please. 🙂