How to get a day of the week for a selected date using PHP? [duplicate]

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How to find day of week in php

I want to get the day of the week of the selected date. For example 05/19/2011 = Thursday

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Here's how to do it for the current time:

$day=strftime("%A",time());

Or for a specific date:

$day=strftime("%A",strtotime("2011-05-19"));

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Use strtotime() and date().

// below first parameter is lowercase "L"
$day_of_the_week = date('l', strtotime($your_date));

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You can use date() and strtotime().

date('l', strtotime($date));

CodePad.

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Use date and strtotime function. More about DATE

#date("format", int_timestamp);
#date("l", strtotime($date) );
$day= date("l", strtotime("05/19/2011") );