get date from day name in php code example

Example 1: php get day from date

$timestamp = strtotime('2009-10-22');

$day = date('D', $timestamp);
var_dump($day);

Example 2: php full day name

date("l",time()) // LOWER CASE L

Example 3: get day from date php

// Prints the day
echo date("l") . "<br>";