Question

I am trying to build a function in php where it takes the user input date, which can be any date within pretty much the last 20 years. i tried to use the getdate() function in php to return to them the day of the week.
here is what I have that isn’t working.

$date="8/4/2010";//user input
$dateget=getdate($date);
echo $dateget; // i want an output like "monday" or "saturday" 

when i run this code i get this error

A non well formed numeric value encountered (on the $dateget=getdate($date) line)

Thanks

Answer 1

You need a timestamp for getdate function. So maybe strtotime function can help.

$date="8/4/2010";//user input
$dateget=getdate(strtotime($date));
echo $dateget['weekday'];