How to find Day from date string in PHP?

Question

i have string like below "June 1, 2012". i need to find day for the above string.

this value return from wordpress postdate() function.

how can i do this in php?

Answer 1

Can't you parse the date with strtotime? If so, you can do it like this:

<?php
date('l', strtotime('June 1, 2012'));
?>