week name in 3 letters php code example

Example 1: php check weekday of date

$dayofweek = date('w', strtotime($date));
$result    = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(($day - $dayofweek).' day', strtotime($date)));

Example 2: get day from date php

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