Checking if date is weekend PHP

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This function seems to only return false. Are any of you getting the same? I'm sure I'm overlooking something, however, fresh eyes and all that ...

function isweekend($date){
    $date = strtotime($date);
    $date = date("l", $date);
    $date = strtolower($date);
    echo $date;
    if($date == "saturday" || $date == "sunday") {
        return "true";
    } else {
        return "false";
    }
}

I call the function using the following:

$isthisaweekend = isweekend('2011-01-01');

Answers

If you have PHP >= 5.1:

function isWeekend($date) {
    return (date('N', strtotime($date)) >= 6);
}

otherwise:

function isWeekend($date) {
    $weekDay = date('w', strtotime($date));
    return ($weekDay == 0 || $weekDay == 6);
}

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

igor_tupitsyn-cc1b78b8f973

you need to escape the a and t as both have special meaning when used as formatting options in date()

echo date('M j at h:i a');

See it in action

Monday, October 17, 2022

sgohl

You don't need to change the php.ini file if you use date_default_timezone_set(). Just set it to the timezone you will be working in.

Something like this should go in a config file or on the page where you're working with dates (if it is only one page):

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');

Friday, December 23, 2022

bgame2498

var dayOfWeek = yourDateObject.getDay();
var isWeekend = (dayOfWeek === 6) || (dayOfWeek  === 0); // 6 = Saturday, 0 = Sunday

Saturday, November 5, 2022

akash_badiyani

$weekday = date("w", strtotime("2012-01-01"));

This will be 0 for Sunday through 6, Saturday.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Sunday, October 16, 2022

dirk_deyne

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