Get Day Of The Week From Date

[kakaini]

Is there any built in function that retrived day of the week from date?For example:i input "02.03.2009" and it returns "Tu" or something like that. x:

[jeffman]

Make a timestamp using this function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.phpPass a formatting character and the timestamp to this function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.phpExamples under the date() description show how to combine the two.

[kakaini]

Thanks! that does the trick!