What version of PHP are you using that
echo date("l","2005-08-13");
doesn't give you "Thursday"?
(or "w" for "3" or "N" for "4")
Ian
On 10/10/05, Paul Menard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Gordon,
>
> Not sure there is a 'direct' way to obtaint this. I'm assuming your date
> value is something like
> '2004-07-13' which is standard format for a DATE in MYSQL.
>
> The way I would do this is via the mktime() function. Something like:
>
> $mydate = "2004-07-13";
> // Split the Date var into seperate fields
> list($Year, $Month, $Day) = split("-", $mydate);
>
> // Use mktime to get the UNIX long.
> $date_ulong = mktime(0,0,0,$Month, $Day, $Year);
>
> $time_array = getdate($date_ulong);
>
> //At this point the $time_array contains the assoc. array information for
> the date including the
> DOW.
>
> P-
>
>
>
> --- Gordon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way I can obtain the day of week - If I have the day, month,
> year ?
> >
> > (not via the time function - But from a database....)
> >
> > Im looking through the calendar and date functions -But can't locate
> > anything suitable...
> >
> > http://php.inspire.net.nz/manual/en/ref.calendar.php
> >
> > http://php.inspire.net.nz/manual/en/ref.datetime.php
> >
> > --
> > G Stewart
> > http://e-services.kwister.com/
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