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

Try

$date = '2012-10-11';
$day  = 1;
$days = array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday','Thursday','Friday', 'Saturday');
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($days[$day], strtotime($date)));