Have you tried the calendar extension?
http://www.php.net/manual/ref.calendar.php
sure it´s possible with mcal, but why buying a car if a only need a seat.
mcal has to be compiled in, isn´t (at least not compiled) (perhaps) available on win32, is much more complicated than date()
PHP wouldn´t be the language with "ease" if I´d to use mcal if I want to use dates before 1970 or later than 2037, IMHO.
regards
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