php - Checking if date falls on weekday or weekend?

Question

How do you check whether a date in the US format of e.g. 2012-01-01 falls on a weekday or weekend in PHP?

Answer 1

$weekday = date("w", strtotime("2012-01-01"));

This will be 0 for Sunday through 6, Saturday.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php