note 94746 deleted from function.date by danbrown

Note Submitter: brandon at php dot net ---- In response to the note by przemeq at gmail dot com, you can do this with far fewer lines of code: <?php function dayOfWeek($date) { $epoch = strtotime($date); if(!$epoch) { trigger_error('Unable to convert date to epoch value', E_USER_WARNING); return; } return date('w', $epoch); } ?> This is considerably less code, even when you include sanity checks (which the last note does not). It also conviently supports any date (November 22nd, 2009, 11/22/2009, 2009-22-11, now, Next Thursday, One Month From Today, etc.). As a note, Saturday == 6, != 7. There are seven days, and date() counts from 0, meaning the highest integer value can be 6.