Re: date -> day

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:28, Tyler Longren wrote: > Hello, > > I have something like this: > $Month = "6"; > $Year = "2001"; > $Date = "1"; > > Is there any relatively simple way to get the day out of that? For > example, the day for 6-1-2001 would be Friday. > > Thanks, > Tyler If that info comes from a database, the db might have date formatting capabilities that you could use. Otherwise, mktime and date would do: $dayofweek = date("l", mktime(0,0,0,$Month, $Date, $Year)) Or you could use getdate instead of date to populate an array of interesting values :-) Have a look at the date functions for more exciting possibilities. -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Birds are trapped by their feet, people by their tongues.