getting day of week from user defined date?

adamhhh1

is there a way to do this?

e.g. i have three drop down boxes in html asking the user for day (1-31), month, year (2007 or 2008)

i then have

// get user input
$start_day = $_POST["start_day"];
$start_month = $_POST["start_month"];
$start_year = $_POST["start_year"];
//echo $start_year;

$the_date = $start_day . "/" . $start_month . "/" . $start_year;
echo $the_date;

say then i get an output as 13/10/2007 if the user enters that date, is there a way to get what day of the week this is?

leatherback

from the [man]date[/man] section in the manual:

// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

adamhhh1

cool yeh i did look at that earlier but ignored it for some reason.

are the 0,0,0 for time?

leatherback

yes 0 0 0 is sec/min/hr. have a look at the man

intenz

Something like this?...

<?php
$start_day = 13;
$start_month = 10;
$start_year = 2007;

$the_date = $start_year . "/" . $start_month . "/" . $start_day;

echo date( 'l', strtotime( $the_date ) );

// Outputs: Saturday
?>

bradgrafelman

Well, looks fine. Did it work? Did you try it? An alternative (and better, IMHO) solution would be to use [man]mktime/man as leatherback suggested.