[RESOLVED] Simple Day Formatting.

Mad_T

Hopefully a simple question..

The variable $day equals the numbers 0 to 6.
0 is Sunday, 6 is Saturday.

Is there a simple way to output $day and format it to show Sunday, Monday etc.

Thanks 🙂

Mad_T

This works :

switch($day) {
	case "0": $day = "Sunday"; break;
	case "1": $day = "Monday"; break;
	case "2": $day = "Tuesday"; break;
	case "3": $day = "Wednesday"; break;
	case "4": $day = "Thursday"; break;
	case "5": $day = "Friday"; break;
	case "6": $day = "Saturday"; break;
}

But only on $day, how would I re write that so I could use it on multiple variables ?

I also need to do something similar with months !

Many Thanks

halojoy

I would create one ARRAY with 7 daynames

<?php

$dnames = array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"); 


$day = 2; // Tuesday
echo $dnames[$day];

echo '<br />';

$day = 0; // Sunday
echo $dnames[$day];

laserlight

Put it in a function 🙂

Actually, this might be simpler:

$day_names = array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
// now use $day_names[$day]

You can also make use of [man]mktime/man and [man]date/man with the w format character.

Mad_T

Thanks 🙂
How do I do that with Months ?? Jan = 1, Feb = 2

Thanks Again

Mad_T

Hmm.. this seems to work 🙂

$dmonths = array("","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");

Is that the right way ?? using a blank entry for 0 ??

Thanks

laserlight

Mad_T wrote:
Is that the right way ?? using a blank entry for 0 ??

That is fine, yes. You could also just subtract 1 or use date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month)).

By the way, I think that $dnames is an insufficiently descriptive name, and indeed by using $dmonths instead of $mnames you have confirmed this. I suggest naming the array $month_names instead.

Mad_T

Thanks.

The naming changes your suggesting make sense 🙂

laserlight

You're welcome 🙂
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