How to get Day Name from date in PHP?

php datepicker jquery-validate weekday

siva · Jul 30, 2015 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

$dateValue='2015/07/15';
$dayName=date("D", strtotime($dateValue);

Hi, I want exact day name from the above given sample date, please help me.

Answer

You need to use l as the first parameter.

echo date('l', strtotime($dateValue));