Getting day of week from timestamp PHP

Question

i am trying to get the day of week from a timestamp:

an example of the timestamp could be:

2014-09-14 18:28:11

I have tried with the following code:

$date = date("D", strtotime($activity[$i]['timestamp']));

However the result i get here is:

Thu

which should have been sunday?

Also is it possible to get it as a full discription instead of a short version of the day name?

Not reproducible, it does output `Sun` here: http://3v4l.org/gBKLE — CBroe, Sep 14 '14 at 17:45
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2475550/getting-the-day-from-a-unix-timestamp-php — Avinash Babu, Sep 14 '14 at 17:52
The value you are working with is clearly not what you think it is. You need to figure out why. — John Conde, Sep 14 '14 at 17:53
Check if your system clock has the correct date and time set. — CBroe, Sep 14 '14 at 17:58
LoL yeah i forgot its inside a for loop so i had to put [$i] infront of ['timestamp'] updating my question — Marc Rasmussen, Sep 14 '14 at 17:59
It looks like the {strtotime()} function has been ignored by the code. So the day is not probably formatted So take look at your code, what this part does { $activity[$i]['timestamp'] } — Mubo, Sep 14 '14 at 18:21
@MarcRasmussen: PHP's [`foreach`](http://php.net/foreach) can do a great job to simplify code. Just in case. — hakre, Sep 14 '14 at 18:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '14 at 18:16

Answer to part two of the question is that you can just use l (lowercase 'L') and it'll output Sunday instead of Sun.

$date = date("l", strtotime($activity[$i]['timestamp']));

As for the first part, it probably output Thursday, 1 January 1970 because it received an error instead of an actual date as argument to strtotime.

Getting day of week from timestamp PHP

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