php check if date entered is weekend

Question

I have a jquery ui datepicker with the weekends blocked off so people can't click them. I know you should never trust the users input and as the box can still be typed in they can still enter weekends. I tried this in php

if(date('w', strtotime($date)) == 6 || 'w', strtotime($date)) == 0)))) {
echo 'Event is on a weekday'; 
} else {
echo 'Event on a weekend';
}

Essentially, the or ||'s aren't actually being accessed for sundays (0) and it's only actually using saturday as the date.

can someone help?

thanks

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 06 '15 at 12:37

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Try like

if(date('l', strtotime($date)) == 'Sunday' || date('l', strtotime($date)) == 'Saturday'))))  {
    echo 'Event on a weekend';
} else {
    echo 'Event is on a weekday'; 
}

Or even you can try like

if(date('w', strtotime($date)) == 6 || date('w', strtotime($date)) == 0) {
    echo 'Event on a weekend';
} else {
    echo 'Event is on a weekday'; 
}

edited May 06 '15 at 12:37

Jens Timmerman

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answered Apr 03 '14 at 12:59

GautamD31

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Be careful with comparing to strings _Sunday_ and _Saturday_ - if the locale is not English, this will fail. – Aleks G Apr 03 '14 at 13:00
@AleksG please see my second also – GautamD31 Apr 03 '14 at 13:01
I used the second one, but as was my orginal problem, it detects weekdays as weekends and weekends as weekdays which is why i had to replace the text. – user3013008 Apr 03 '14 at 13:07
Essentially replace weekday with weekend and weekend with weekday and it works fine. Thanks – user3013008 Apr 03 '14 at 13:09

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 13:09

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With DateTime::Format we can do as

$date = '2014-04-06' ; // Y-m-d 

$date = new DateTime($date);
$day =  $date->format("w");
if($day == 6 || $day == 0){
    echo 'Event on a weekend';
}else{
    echo 'Event on a weekday';
}

answered Apr 03 '14 at 13:09

Abhik Chakraborty

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 25 '17 at 09:50

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You have a syntax error in your if statement in addition to getting the logic the wrong way around. It should be:

if(date('w', strtotime($date)) == 6 || date('w', strtotime($date)) == 0) {
    echo 'Event is on a weekend'; 
} else {
    echo 'Event on a weekday';
}

edited Jul 25 '17 at 09:50

Pathik Vejani

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answered Apr 03 '14 at 13:01

Aleks G

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Thanks works on old PHP versions. – Sep 23 '18 at 15:34

php check if date entered is weekend

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