PHP day of week numeric to day of week text

Question

This may be really easy but I can\'t find a PHP function to do this...

OK so

$dow_numeric = date(\'w\');

gives the numeric day of t

Answer 1

If you need locale support you can use a bit improved function of Hamishs answer:

Example using german weekdays:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE');
$dow_numeric = 3;
$dow_text = strftime('%A', strtotime("Sunday +{$dow_numeric} days"));

http://php.net/strftime

If $dow_numeric start on 0 (0 = Monday) you can just change Sunday to Monday or add $dow_numeric += 1