How to find the date of a day of the week from a date using PHP?

Question

If I\'ve got a $date YYYY-mm-dd and want to get a specific $day (specified by 0 (sunday) to 6 (saturday)) of the week that YYYY-

Answer 1

You can use the date() function:

date('w'); // day of week

or

date('l'); // dayname

Example function to get the day nr.:

function getWeekday($date) {
    return date('w', strtotime($date));
}

echo getWeekday('2012-10-11'); // returns 4

Answer 2

I'm afraid you have to do it manually. Get the date's current day of week, calculate the offset and add the offset to the date.

$current = date("w", $date)
$offset = $day - $current
$new_date = new DateTime($date)
    ->add(
        new DateInterval($offset."D")
    )->format('Y-m-d')

Answer 3

<?php echo date("H:i", time()); ?>
<?php echo $days[date("l", time())] . date(", d.m.Y", time()); ?>

Simple, this should do the trick