RE: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
Gah. I read that lower case l as a number 1. Time to get new glasses/switch
to 640x480 mode.
Thanks to everyone for your help.
Cheers
Jon
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From: Andrew Rush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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
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RE: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jon Haworth wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes, you're missing the fact that it's a lowercase 'L', and not in fact the
numeral '1'.
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RE: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
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?
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From: Andrew Rush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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
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Re: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jon Haworth wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> 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!
>
> I'm hunting around at the moment but I haven't had any joy so far, I thought
> I'd see if anyone's already invented this wheel...
>
> Cheers
> Jon
>
Try date('l'). (lowercase L)
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RE: [PHP] Working out the name of the day given a date
Cheers Andy, between my last post and this one I came up with a rather
long-winded way of doing it...
$dayarray = getdate(mktime(0,0,0,$month,$date,$year));
switch ($dayarray["wday"]) {
case 0:
$day = "Sunday";
break;
case 1:
$day = "Monday";
break;
case 2:
$day = "Tuesday";
break;
case 3:
$day = "Wednesday";
break;
case 4:
$day = "Thursday";
break;
case 5:
$day = "Friday";
break;
case 6:
$day = "Saturday";
break;
}
Ugh. I'll try your method.
Cheers
Jon
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Rush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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
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