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Regardind display of days

Apr 1st, 2009

In php if we provide a particulr date how to display the name of the day i.e; whether that day lies on sunday or monday...

Can you please give me idea.

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Re: Regardind display of days

Apr 1st, 2009

Convert that date to unixtimestamp using strtotime. Then use date("l") to get the day.
http://in.php.net/date
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$date = "2009-03-31";
$timestamp = strtotime($date);
echo date("l",$timestamp);
$date = "2009-03-31";
$timestamp = strtotime($date);
echo date("l",$timestamp);

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Re: Regardind display of days

Apr 1st, 2009

I want to dsiplay it irrespective of year for example if i give the date that belongs to year 1987 it should display the day with respect to present year.

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Re: Regardind display of days

Apr 1st, 2009

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Originally Posted by srilakshmitr7

I want to dsiplay it irrespective of year for example if i give the date that belongs to year 1987 it should display the day with respect to present year.

Yes. That is what it does. Try out that example by giving 1987's date