get all days and dates for the selected month of a year

Question

how to get both days and dates for selected month of selected year and show in tables. e-g: i have tried so far.

<?php
$num_of_days = cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 9, 2003);
for( $i=1; $i<= $num_of_days; $i++)
    $dates[]= str_pad($i,2,'0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
/*echo "<pre>";
print_r($dates);
echo "</pre>";*/
?>
<table>
    <tr>
<?php
foreach($dates as $date){
    echo"<td>".$date."</td>";
}
?>
    </tr>
</table>

this executes for me this code.

<table>
    <tbody><tr>
<td>01</td><td>02</td><td>03</td><td>04</td><td>05</td><td>06</td><td>07</td><td>08</td><td>09</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td>    </tr>
</tbody></table>

but i want another row below the dates row. which should show day related to that date??

by day i mean :monday, tues, wed etc. by date i mean : 1, 2, 3, 4 etc

so it would be like

<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td>
<tr><td>Mon</td><td>Tues</td><td>Wed</td><td>Thursday</td>

I hope i could explain my self..

Answer 1

You can use date('l') to get the corresponding day name:

<?php
$date = '2003-09-01';
$end = '2003-09-' . date('t', strtotime($date)); //get end date of month
?>
<table>
    <tr>
    <?php while(strtotime($date) <= strtotime($end)) {
        $day_num = date('d', strtotime($date));
        $day_name = date('l', strtotime($date));
        $date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 day", strtotime($date)));
        echo "<td>$day_num <br/> $day_name</td>";
    }
    ?>
    </tr>
</table>

Answer 2

A different approach could be to use the DateTime object:

$aDates = array();
$oStart = new DateTime('2014-12-01');
$oEnd = clone $oStart;
$oEnd->add(new DateInterval("P1M"));

while ($oStart->getTimestamp() < $oEnd->getTimestamp()) {
    $aDates[] = $oStart->format('D d');
    $oStart->add(new DateInterval("P1D"));
}

Then to print:

foreach ($aDates as $day) {
    echo $day;
}

For more information about the format parameters, you can refer to: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php