Retrieving Day Names in PHP

Question

I need to display to user a list of localized day names (like \'Monday\', \'Tuesday\', ...) in a form. I know ho to get day name of any date. But is there a particular and f

Answer 1

$dayNames = array(
    'Sunday',
    'Monday', 
    'Tuesday', 
    'Wednesday', 
    'Thursday', 
    'Friday', 
    'Saturday', 
 );

Is pretty fail-proof :)

On a more serious note, the likes of PHPBB do this by defining localization files and hard coding for different languages. It's really the only way to do this reliably.

I would recommend downloading something like that and looking at the code to see how its done.

http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/olympus.php