convert w date to l format

Um ... can anyone point me to somewhere that it explains this ...

I am trying to convert a "int" (1 through 7) to a day name (Monday through
Friday) while in a loop with mysql results

I have tried $day = date('w', $day);

But this does not seem to work ... can anyone assist?


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Steven Macintyre wrote:
> Um ... can anyone point me to somewhere that it explains this ...
>
> I am trying to convert a "int" (1 through 7) to a day name (Monday through
> Friday) while in a loop with mysql results

What happened to the weekend? I'd hate to lose the weekend!!

> I have tried $day = date('w', $day);
>
> But this does not seem to work ... can anyone assist?

That's because the date function expects a timestamp.

What you want is an array, nothing more complicated than that.

$days = array(1 => 'Monday',
2 => 'Tuesday',
3 => 'Wednesday',
4 => 'Thursday',
5 => 'Friday',
6 => 'Saturday',
7 => 'Sunday');

$day = $days[$day];

-Stut

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:46 +0200, Steven Macintyre wrote:
> Um ... can anyone point me to somewhere that it explains this ...
>
> I am trying to convert a "int" (1 through 7) to a day name (Monday through
> Friday) while in a loop with mysql results
>
> I have tried $day = date('w', $day);
>
> But this does not seem to work ... can anyone assist?

Something like:

<?php

$monday = strtotime( "next monday" );
for( $i = 0; $i < 7; $i++ )
{
echo date( 'w', $monday + (24 * 60 * 60 * $i) )."\n";
}

?>

Cheers,
Rob.
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On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:59 +0000, Stut wrote:
> Steven Macintyre wrote:
> > Um ... can anyone point me to somewhere that it explains this ...
> >
> > I am trying to convert a "int" (1 through 7) to a day name (Monday through
> > Friday) while in a loop with mysql results
>
> What happened to the weekend? I'd hate to lose the weekend!!
>
> > I have tried $day = date('w', $day);
> >
> > But this does not seem to work ... can anyone assist?
>
> That's because the date function expects a timestamp.
>
> What you want is an array, nothing more complicated than that.
>
> $days = array(1 => 'Monday',
> 2 => 'Tuesday',
> 3 => 'Wednesday',
> 4 => 'Thursday',
> 5 => 'Friday',
> 6 => 'Saturday',
> 7 => 'Sunday');
>
> $day = $days[$day];

That's not locale portable :B

Cheers,
Rob.
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| also provides an extremely flexible architecture for |
| creating re-usable components quickly and easily. |
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Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:46 +0200, Steven Macintyre wrote:
>> Um ... can anyone point me to somewhere that it explains this ...
>>
>> I am trying to convert a "int" (1 through 7) to a day name (Monday through
>> Friday) while in a loop with mysql results
>>
>> I have tried $day = date('w', $day);
>>
>> But this does not seem to work ... can anyone assist?
>
> Something like:
>
> <?php
>
> $monday = strtotime( "next monday" );
> for( $i = 0; $i < 7; $i++ )
> {
> echo date( 'w', $monday + (24 * 60 * 60 * $i) )."\n";
> }
>
> ?>

let do a merge of Robbert and Stut ;-) a mindmeld of sorts.

<?php

$mon = strtotime('next monday');
$day = 4 * 60 * 60;
$days = array();

for ($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++)
$days[$i] = date('w', $mon + ($day * $i));

// now you have a localized array of day names, that you can
// use in your output [loop?] in the way that Stut described.

>
> Cheers,
> Rob.