Question

I have been looking through examples online, and I am finding them a bit cryptic or overkill.

What I need to do is something like this:

$timestamp = time();

and then find out if the day is a Monday or a fist of the month?

I am sure it is possible, I am just not sure how to do that.

Answer 1

Actually, you don’t need timestamp variable because:

Exerpt from date function of php.net:

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using
the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is
given. In other words, timestamp is optional and defaults to the value
of time().

if(date('j', $timestamp) === '1') 
    echo "It is the first day of the month today\n";

if(date('D', $timestamp) === 'Mon') 
    echo "It is Monday today\n";