PHP day of week numeric to day of week text

Question

This may be really easy but I can\'t find a PHP function to do this...

OK so

$dow_numeric = date(\'w\');

gives the numeric day of t

Answer 1

Create an array to map numeric DOWs to text DOWs.

$dowMap = array('Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat');

If you need locale support, load the dow of some random date (epoch (0) would be a good date for example) and then for the next 6 days and build the dow map dynamically.