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

This should work:

$dow_numeric = 3;

$last_sunday = strtotime('last Sunday');
$dow_text = date('D', strtotime('+'.$dow_numeric.' day', $last_sunday));