[RESOLVED] input date find Day??

[efficacious]

Does anyone know of a way I could input a date into say a function and that function result in the actual day..

Like say I put this (fake function)

$TheDay = fake_date_function('09-05-08');

echo("Today is ".$TheDay.".");

RESULT:

Today is Friday.

thanks,
`eff

[scrupul0us]

<?php

echo date("l",strtotime($fake_date));

?>

[efficacious]

That totally almost works..

I've changed it alil to this

$TheDay='09-04-2008';
$Datez = date("l",strtotime($TheDay));
echo($Datez);

but there is one problem... Sept 4th lies on a Thurdsay not a wednesday

[scrupul0us]

see if switching the '-' to '/' makes a difference

[efficacious]

NVRM user error..

it only works if the date is placed in a specific order..

DD-MM-YYYY

I'm used to MM-DD-YYYY

[efficacious]

Thanks a million man.. really saved me a TON of extra work.

I actually still need to do alil filtering and switching tho.. because The date comes to me as

(today):

Sep-5-2008 So i'll have to run a switch on the month to turn Sep into 09

[scrupul0us]

no problem 🙂 glad i could have helped... make sure to mark the thread resolved

[efficacious]

lol I ended up just making my own lil function for this.. so I could have less to type out...

here it is if anyone might be interested..
(Not really that complicated)

TheDay() Function:

function TheDay($x)
{
	$TD_Date=$x;
	$TD_Get=date('l',strtotime($TD_Date));
	return($TD_Get);
}

Syntax:

TheDay('DD-MM-YYYY');

[Weedpacket]

efficacious wrote:

here it is if anyone might be interested..
(Not really that complicated)

It could be simplified 🙂

function TheDay($x)
{
    return date('l', strtotime($x));
}