[PHP] yesterday's day of week

I have been able to get yesterdays date eg. $yesterday = date('d')-1; result is 17 but am having trouble getting yesterdays day of the week. eg. $yesterday = date('D')-1; result is -1 eg. $yesterday = date('l')-1; result is -1 Is there something I am missing? I cannot find the documentation

Re: [PHP] yesterday's day of week

On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:38, Kenton Letkeman wrote: I have been able to get yesterdays date eg. $yesterday = date('d')-1; result is 17 but am having trouble getting yesterdays day of the week. eg. $yesterday = date('D')-1; result is -1 eg. $yesterday = date('l')-1; result is -1 Is

Re: [PHP] yesterday's day of week

There is a magic little function called strtotime()... it takes just about any english phrase, and acts on it... there are examples in the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php In this case, I'm guessing you'd want $yesterday = strtotime('yesterday'); Another approach