php date day name full code example

Example 1: php get day from date

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

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

Example 2: long day in php

$mydate = '2016-01-01';
echo date('l, F jS, Y', strtotime($mydate));
# Friday, January 1st, 2016