Display day of week from date [RESOLVED]

[lleemon]

I have a list of dates in the following format:
14/Jun/2003
18/Jul/2003
09/May/2003
...
This list will keep continuing to grow so it can not be hard coded.

I would like to be able to determine from this date format what the day of the week it is (Mon, Tues, Wed, etc...). Is this even possible? I know that if I had the month in a numberic value I could use:
getdate(mktime(0,0,0,$month, $day, $year)).

My second question would be then, Is it possible to convert a month, Jul to 07?

Thanks for the help in advance.

[The Hobo]

Why are you saving the date like that?

If you would save it in any kind of normal format, the php date() function would answer your two questions in one line of code.

But they cannot understand that format.

[The Hobo]

Example:

<?php
    $date = "14/06/2003";

    echo "The day of the week is " . date('D', strtotime($date)) . ".<br>";
?>

[The Hobo]

I suppose you could always pull this number:

<?php
    $date = "14/Jun/2003";

    $dp = explode('/', $date);
    $newdate = "$dp[1] $dp[0], $dp[2]";

    echo "The day of the week is " . date('D', strtotime($newdate)) . ".<br>";
    echo "The month number is " . date('m', strtotime($newdate)) . ".<br>";
?>

[lleemon]

The Hobo,
Works very nice!

Thanks.