HOw to check if day is Saturday?

[laredotornado@zipmail.com]

Hi,

I'm using PHP 4.4.4 and I was wondering if anyone knows of a function
or quick way, given a scalar representation of month (as a number
between 1 and 12), day, and year (as a four digit number, e.g. 2007),
how would I tell if that day is a Saturday?

Thanks, - Dave

[Chuck Anderson]

Re: How to check if day is Saturday?

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:

Hi,
>
I'm using PHP 4.4.4 and I was wondering if anyone knows of a function
or quick way, given a scalar representation of month (as a number
between 1 and 12), day, and year (as a four digit number, e.g. 2007),
how would I tell if that day is a Saturday?
>
Thanks, - Dave
>
>

Use mktime() with your month day and year as inputs to create a timestamp.
e.g., $tstamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);
.... and then use:
date('l', $tstamp); to get the textual representation of the day of the
week
(or use 'N' to get 1 - 7, 6 being Saturday)

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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: HOw to check if day is Saturday?

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laredotornado@z ipmail.com contained the following:

>I'm using PHP 4.4.4 and I was wondering if anyone knows of a function
>or quick way, given a scalar representation of month (as a number
>between 1 and 12), day, and year (as a four digit number, e.g. 2007),
>how would I tell if that day is a Saturday?

Check out date() and mktime()

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[Curtis]

Re: HOw to check if day is Saturday?

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:

Hi,
>
I'm using PHP 4.4.4 and I was wondering if anyone knows of a function
or quick way, given a scalar representation of month (as a number
between 1 and 12), day, and year (as a four digit number, e.g. 2007),
how would I tell if that day is a Saturday?
>
Thanks, - Dave

Or, you could try using strtotime to get the timestamp:

<?php
# if the month, day, and year aren't already in a single scalar, put
them in one
$date = "${month}/${day}/${year}";

$dayOfWeek = date('l', strtotime($date ));
?>