Date to day conversion in php

Question

Hi friends in my webpage i need to calculate the day[ie. SUN,MON,TUE...] from the date .. The date is in ['06/22/2009'] this format ? How can i calculate it in to day[That is it will show me MON] in php . Please help me to find out . Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

Use the date http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php and strtotime http://au.php.net/strtotime functions

Answer 2

First, you need to parse the string '06/22/2009' into a timestamp, possibly using strtotime():

$dt = strtotime('06/22/2009');

Then, you can format the timestamp using date():

$day = date("D", $dt);

If you especially want it in uppercase, use strtoupper():

print strtoupper($day);