RE: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
| From: | Jon Haworth | Date: | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:30:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hmmm. I did:
$timestamp = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$date,$year);
$day = date("1", $timestamp);
and it returns 1, no matter what the contents of $month, $date and $year
are. Did I miss something?
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rush [mailto:andy@mainetoday.com]
Sent: 16 January 2001 16:03
To: Jon Haworth
Subject: Re: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
On Tuesday, January 16, 2001, at 10:56 AM, Jon Haworth wrote:
> Just a quickie. Does anyone have a code snippet for calculating the day of
> the week given a date? I was hoping I could feed a string like "20010116"
to
> a function and have it return "Tuesday" - it doesn't have to be exactly
this
> date format that is used for the input, but I do need the name of the day
on
> the output!
covert your date string to a unix timestamp and then use date("l",
$myString)
have a great day,
andy
:: Andrew Rush :: Lead Systems Developer :: MaineToday.com ::
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