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

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This works for me and is reusable   function isThisDayAWeekend  date          timestamp   strtotime  date         weekday  date  l    timestamp         if   weekday    Saturday  OR  weekday    Sunday     return true         else  return false

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If you have PHP    5 1   function isWeekend  date        return  date  N   strtotime  date    gt   6       otherwise   function isWeekend  date         weekDay   date  w   strtotime  date        return   weekDay    0     weekDay    6

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Another way is to use the DateTime class  this way you can also specify the timezone  Note  PHP 5 3 or higher      For the current date function isTodayWeekend          currentDate   new DateTime  now   new DateTimeZone  Europe Amsterdam         return  currentDate- gt format  N    gt   6      If you need to be able to check a certain date string  you can use DateTime  createFromFormat  function isWeekend  date         inputDate   DateTime  createFromFormat  d-m-Y    date  new DateTimeZone  Europe Amsterdam         return  inputDate- gt format  N    gt   6      The beauty of this way is that you can specify the timezone without changing the timezone globally in PHP  which might cause side-effects in other scripts  for ex  Wordpress

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Here   function isweekend  year   month   day         time   mktime 0  0  0   month   day   year        weekday   date  w    time       return   weekday    0     weekday    6

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The working version of your code  from the errors pointed out by BoltClock      lt  php  date    2011-01-01    timestamp   strtotime  date    weekday  date  l    timestamp     normalized weekday   strtolower  weekday   echo  normalized weekday   if    normalized weekday     saturday        normalized weekday     sunday          echo  true     else       echo  false        gt    The stray     is difficult to see  especially without a decent PHP editor  in my case   So I post the corrected version here

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For guys like me  who aren t minimalistic  there is a PECL extension called  intl    I use it for idn conversion since it works way better than the  idn  extension and some other n1 classes like  IntlDateFormatter     Well  what I want to say is  the  intl  extension has a class called  IntlCalendar  which can handle many international countries  e g  in Saudi Arabia  sunday is not a weekend day   The IntlCalendar has a method IntlCalendar  isWeekend for that  Maybe you guys give it a shot  I like that  it works for almost every country  fact on these intl-classes   EDIT  Not quite sure but since PHP 5 5 0  the intl extension is bundled with PHP  --enable-intl

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If you re using PHP 5 5 or PHP 7 above  you may want to use   function isTodayWeekend         return in array date  l      Saturday    Sunday         and it will return  true  if today is weekend and  false  if not

[php] Checking if date is weekend PHP

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