[RESOLVED] how to get day num from date YYYY-MM-DD ?

steamPunk

I'm doing my head in trying to figure what process i need to use to simply get the day-of-the-week number (eg 0 for sunday, 1 for monday etc) from a date formatted as YYYY-MM-DD

I think i need need to use strtotime() but i can't work out what i'd need to do with it

can anyone help ?

thanks

steamPunk

in the end i did it like this

$parts = explode("-",$date);			
$dNum = date("w", mktime(0, 0, 0, $parts[1], $parts[2], $parts[1]));

but it seems a bit kludgy using explode() when there must be a better way, no ?

laserlight

but it seems a bit kludgy using explode() when there must be a better way, no ?

Perhaps:

$dNum = date('w', strtotime($date));

steamPunk

yes - you're right again

I had tried several combinations using date(), strtotime(), strfrtime(), mktime() etc etc and i couldn't find the right one

is it just me or does everyone find the date functions hard to get to grips with ?

anyway, thanks 🙂