How to find the date of a day of the week from a date using PHP?

Question

If I\'ve got a $date YYYY-mm-dd and want to get a specific $day (specified by 0 (sunday) to 6 (saturday)) of the week that YYYY-

Answer 1

You can use the date() function:

date('w'); // day of week

or

date('l'); // dayname

Example function to get the day nr.:

function getWeekday($date) {
    return date('w', strtotime($date));
}

echo getWeekday('2012-10-11'); // returns 4