How to find Tomorrow day is "saturday" or not in PHP?

Question

This is my code. I am using the strtotime function for find the next day is saturday. But my code result is always run else part. Where I am wrong.

$current_date = date('Y-m-d');

$date = strtotime($current_date); 

$weekDay = date('w', strtotime('+1 day',$date));

if(($weekDay == 'Saturday'))
    echo "Tomorrow is Saturday.";
else
    echo "Tomorrow is not Saturday.";

`var_dump()` your variables to actually *see* what you're dealing with...! Also, `strtotime(date('Y-m-d'))` is the same as `time()`. — deceze, Apr 15 '16 at 13:49
Possible duplicate of [Checking if date is weekend PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4802335/checking-if-date-is-weekend-php) — Tom, Apr 15 '16 at 13:54

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '16 at 13:49

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Use 'l' instead "w"

$current_date = date('Y-m-d');

$date = strtotime($current_date); 

$weekDay = date('l', strtotime('+1 day',$date));
if(($weekDay == 'Saturday'))
    echo "Tomorrow is Saturday.";
else
    echo "Tomorrow is not Saturday.";

answered Apr 15 '16 at 13:49

Brijal Savaliya

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Correctly Working.Thanks – Apr 16 '16 at 04:31

Ramalingam Perumal · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-15T14:01:08.757

It will give you 6 as output. You could change the "6" insteadof "saturday".

$date = time(); //Current date 
$weekDay = date('w', strtotime('+1 day',$date));

if(($weekDay == 6)) //Check if the day is saturday or not.
    echo "Tomorrow is saturday.";
else
    echo "Tomorrow is not saturday.";

Result :

Tomorrow is saturday.

NOTE :
0 => Sunday
1 => Monday
2 => Tuesday
3 => Wednesday
4 => Thursday
5 => Friday
6 => Saturday

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 15 '16 at 13:47

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It will give you 6 as output.

$current_date = date('Y-m-d');

$date = strtotime($current_date); 

$weekDay = date('w', strtotime('+1 day',$date));

if(($weekDay == 6))
    echo "Tomorrow is Saturday.";
else
    echo "Tomorrow is not Saturday.";

answered Apr 15 '16 at 13:47

RJParikh

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Robert · Answer 4 · 2016-04-15T14:35:43.777

There is very simple solution using w param in date() function

if (date('w', strtotime("+1 day")) == 6) {
 // tomorrow is saturday
}

or more objective solution

if ((new DateTime())->modify('+1 day')->format('w') == 6) {
   // tomorrow is saturday
}

w - returns day of week
6 - represents saturday

To make it short you can use tenary operator

printf("Tomorrow is%s saturday", date('w', strtotime("+1 day")) == 6 ? '' : " not");

How to find Tomorrow day is "saturday" or not in PHP?

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