How to get a day of the week for a selected date using PHP? [duplicate]

Question

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How to find day of week in php

I want to get the day of the week of the selected date. For example 05/19/2011 = Thursday

Answer 1

Here's how to do it for the current time:

$day=strftime("%A",time());

Or for a specific date:

$day=strftime("%A",strtotime("2011-05-19"));