What Day of the Week Does it Fall on?

The first thing you need to do is use the mktime() function to create a timestamp for the day in question. In our example we will use Halloween.

$h = mktime(0, 0, 0, 10, 31, 2008);

Next you can format this date in different ways using standard date formatting:

$d = date("F dS, Y", $h) ;
 $w= date("l", $h) ;

Finally you tell the user what day of the week their event falls on simply using Echo():

Echo "$d is on a $w";

So the full code will look like this:

<?php
 $h = mktime(0, 0, 0, 10, 31, 2008);
 $d = date("F dS, Y", $h) ;
 $w= date("l", $h) ;
 Echo "$d is on a $w";
 ?>

The code above will return: October 31st, 2008 is on a Friday

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