"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> .oO(Alred Wallace)
>
>>first the timestamp is the best way to find day of the week. A timestamp
>>look like : 3215649870354 (secondes).
>
> The best is to let the database handle that.
>
>>I don't know how are stored your data. Let's imagine the worst: in a
>>string!!
>>and the month are stored like:jan, mar,feb...
>>and not like 1 (jan), 2 (feb)...
>>we will be forced to make an array.
>>Let's begin the script:
>>[...]
>
> Have a look at strtotime().
>
> <?php
> $date = '11 Mar 2008 22:32:06';
> print date('l', strtotime($date));
> ?>
>
> Micha

Hi Micha

that works a treat

Thanks to all who replied

Mark