How to display weekday (monday to sunday) of the entered date of birth? This code will display the Years, Months, Days (in number) and I am trying to find how to display the weekday but failed so many times and got frustrated.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Age calculator</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://formden.com/static/cdn/bootstrap-iso.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.4.1/js/bootstrap-datepicker.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.4.1/css/bootstrap-datepicker3.css"/>
</head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
error_reporting(0);
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$dateOfBirth = $_POST['dateOfBirth'];
$today = date("Y-m-d");
$diff = date_diff(date_create($dateOfBirth),date_create( $today));
$output= $diff->format('%y Years, %m Months, %d Days');
}
?>
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="dateOfBirth" id="dob" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" /><br>
<?php
echo $output;
?>
</form>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
var date_input=$('input[name="dateOfBirth"]'); //our date input has the name "date"
var container=$('.bootstrap-iso form').length>0 ? $('.bootstrap-iso form').parent() : "body";
var options={
format: 'mm/dd/yyyy',
container: container,
todayHighlight: true,
autoclose: true,
orientation: "top left",
};
date_input.datepicker(options);
})
function show_now(){
var my_day=new Date(dob)
//var dt = new Date(\"Aug 16, 2005 05:55:00\");
var day_name=new Array(7);
day_name[0]='Sunday'
day_name[1]=' Monday'
day_name[2]='Tuesday'
day_name[3]='Wednesday'
day_name[4]='Thursday'
day_name[5]='Friday'
day_name[6]='Saturday'
alert ("Today Day is = " + day_name[my_day.getDay(dob)]);
}
</script>
<body>
<input type=button value="Show Day" onclick="show_now();">
</script>
</body>
</html>
You can display the day of week with the date function and the format option 'w'.
$dayOfWeek = date('w', strtotime($bDayDate));
For more information see w3school date function.